公开(公告)号：US10053117B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-21

申请号：US15246930

申请日：2016-08-25

Applicant: Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.

Inventor： Isaac Suwa Traylor ,  Benjamin Arthur Raeder

IPC: B61C17/12 ,  B61C5/00

CPC classification number: B61C17/12 ,  B61C5/00

Abstract: A method for operating a consist is disclosed. The consist includes a number of locomotives. The method includes selecting a power setting in a lead locomotive of the consist to generate an overall power request by an input device. Thereafter, a controller determines a power setting in each locomotive based on the overall power request. Next, the controller modulates a power output of one or more locomotives according to a difference between a measure of the overall power request and a measure of a combined power output of all locomotives according to the power setting determined by the controller, such that the combined power output matches the overall power request by keeping the power setting, determined by the controller, of each of the one or more locomotives unchanged.