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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
May. 01, 2012
Derek Kevin Woo, Rockledge, FL (US);
Robert C. Palanti, Melbourne, FL (US);
Carlos Cesar Sabino Paulino, Melbourne, FL (US);
Derek Kevin Woo, Rockledge, FL (US);
Robert C. Palanti, Melbourne, FL (US);
Carlos Cesar Sabino Paulino, Melbourne, FL (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling a vehicle system includes receiving information of a failure condition in a first rail vehicle of a rail vehicle consist. The method further includes, in response to the failure condition, controlling a second rail vehicle of the rail vehicle consist from a first operational mode to a different, second operational mode. In the second operational mode, the second rail vehicle performs a function that the first rail vehicle cannot due to the failure condition. The information is received over a distributed power system of the rail vehicle consist, and/or the second rail vehicle is controlled over the distributed power system.