公开(公告)号：US20140343835A1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-20

申请号：US13896668

申请日：2013-05-17

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Jared Klineman COOPER ,  Robert James FOY ,  Eugene SMITH ,  John Welsh MCELROY ,  Frank WAWRZYNIAK

IPC: B61L23/00

CPC classification number: B61L23/00 ,  B61L15/0081

Abstract: A method for determining a slack condition of a vehicle system includes determining when each of first and second vehicles reaches a designated location along a route. The method also includes communicating a response message from the second vehicle to the first vehicle responsive to the second vehicle reaching the designated location, calculating a separation distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on a time delay between a first time when the first vehicle reached the designated location and a second time when the second vehicle reached the designated location, and determining a slack condition of the vehicle system based on the separation distance. The slack condition is representative of an amount of slack in the vehicle system between the first and second vehicles.

Abstract translation: 用于确定车辆系统的松弛状态的方法包括确定第一和第二车辆中的每一个何时到达沿着路线的指定位置。 所述方法还包括响应于所述第二车辆到达所述指定位置而将响应消息从所述第二车辆传送到所述第一车辆，基于所述第一车辆的第一时间之间的时间延迟来计算所述第一车辆和所述第二车辆之间的间隔距离 车辆到达指定位置，第二车辆到达指定位置，并且基于分离距离确定车辆系统的松弛状态。 松弛状况代表第一和第二车辆之间车辆系统的松弛量。