VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

• Main Authors: Elkin, Amanda, Trombo-Somerville, Brett, Blackwell, Jeremy, Vrba, Matthew
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.02.2024
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SURVEYING; TESTING

A system is provided to initialize a vehicle for movement under or with the protection of a vehicle control system. The system may determine a sensed location of a vehicle based off one or more location signals received from an off-board source, and calculate a location of the vehicle responsive to the vehicle moving into a blocking structure where the vehicle does not determine the sensed location of the vehicle based off the one or more location signals. The calculated location of the vehicle may be calculated using one or more sensor outputs. A route is selected from among several routes within the blocking structure based on the calculated location. The selected route is communicated to a back-office system, and movement of the vehicle is controlled using one or more control signals received from the back-office system that are based on the route that is selected. rJ I CD liii I IrI