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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
David Bradley Pulliam, Lawrence Park, PA (US);
Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Erie, PA (US);
Bret Dwayne Worden, Erie, PA (US);
Jeremy Thomas McGarry, Lawrence Park, PA (US);
Kevin Ray Ruybal, Erie, PA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling a vehicle system includes obtaining an off-board-based input speed of a vehicle system traveling along a curved segment of a first route. The off-board-based input speed is obtained from data provided by an off-board device disposed off the vehicle system. The method also includes determining a heading of the vehicle system from the data provided by the off-board device and calculating a curvature of the curved segment of the first route using the off-board-based input speed and the heading of the vehicle system while the vehicle system travels along the curved segment of the first route.