Virtual railroad

A virtual railroad of vehicles is disclosed. In one aspect of the disclosure, a system includes one or more passenger vehicles of a peloton, and a first engine vehicle of the peloton. The first engine vehicle communicatively connected to the one or more passenger vehicles, wherein the first engine v...

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Main Authors Czinger, Kevin Robert, Weaver, Gregory S, Chen, Jinbo, Bucknell, John Russell
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.03.2024
Subjects
CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION
CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICS
ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT
SIGNALLING
TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
TRANSPORTING
VEHICLES IN GENERAL
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Summary:A virtual railroad of vehicles is disclosed. In one aspect of the disclosure, a system includes one or more passenger vehicles of a peloton, and a first engine vehicle of the peloton. The first engine vehicle communicatively connected to the one or more passenger vehicles, wherein the first engine vehicle comprises: a processor communicatively connected to a memory and is configured to receive status information of the one or more passenger vehicles, determine, based on the received status information, a set of current values for a set of vehicle attributes for each of the one or more passenger vehicles, and adjust, based on the set of current values for the set of vehicle attributes, a position of a corresponding passenger vehicle of the one or more passenger vehicles.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202217574513