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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2008
Paul Kenneth Houpt, Schenectady, NY (US);
Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Lees Summit, MO (US);
Glenn Robert Shaffer, Erie, PA (US);
James D. Brooks, Erie, PA (US);
Paul Kenneth Houpt, Schenectady, NY (US);
Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Lees Summit, MO (US);
Glenn Robert Shaffer, Erie, PA (US);
James D. Brooks, Erie, PA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system is provided for pacing a plurality of powered systems traveling along a route. The plurality of powered systems include a constraining powered system and at least one trailing powered system traveling behind the constraining powered system along the route. The system includes one or more controllers configured to control the constraining powered system to travel along the route according to respective predetermined operating parameters at respective incremental locations along the route. The system further includes one of said controllers being configured to control the trailing powered system to travel along the route according to the respective predetermined operating parameters of the constraining powered system at the respective incremental locations along the route. A method is also provided for pacing a plurality of powered systems traveling along the route.