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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2019
Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Andrew Ryan Staats, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Karen Ann Shaw, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
James Allen Oswald, Coggon, IA (US);
Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Erie, PA (US);
Glenn Robert Shaffer, Erie, PA (US);
TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A vehicle control system and method include one or more processors that determine that a vehicle has or will have insufficient energy to power a propulsion system of the vehicle under a first set of operational settings to move the vehicle from a first location to a designated second location that is outside of an unpowered segment of a route along which the vehicle moves. Responsive to determining that the vehicle has or will have insufficient energy, the one or more processors change one or more of a throttle setting or a brake setting of the vehicle to operate the vehicle under a second set of operational settings while the vehicle moves within a powered segment of the route.