US 12,246,761 B2
Adaptive vehicle control system
James D. Brooks, Schenectady, NY (US); and Harry Mathews, Jr., Niskayuna, NY (US)
Assigned to Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US)
Filed by Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/522,867.
Application 17/522,867 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/450,024, filed on Jun. 24, 2019, granted, now 11,203,365.
Application 16/450,024 is a continuation of application No. 15/482,240, filed on Apr. 7, 2017, granted, now 10,370,012, issued on Aug. 6, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/469,142, filed on Mar. 9, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0063686 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B61L 15/00 (2006.01); B61L 27/04 (2006.01); B61L 27/14 (2022.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01)
CPC B61L 15/0058 (2024.01) [B61L 15/0018 (2013.01); B61L 15/0027 (2013.01); B61L 15/0072 (2013.01); B61L 27/04 (2013.01); B61L 27/14 (2022.01); G05D 1/0005 (2013.01); G05D 1/0061 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control system comprising:
one or more processors configured to determine one or more operating parameters of a vehicle system that is moving according to a trip plan that designates throttle settings of the vehicle system at different locations, different times, or different distances along one or more routes, the one or more processors configured to identify one or more regions of a trip of the vehicle system for either a manual mode of control or autonomous mode of control of the vehicle system according to the trip plan based on the one or more operating parameters, the one or more processors configured to automatically switch control of the vehicle system between the manual mode of control and the autonomous mode of control based on the one or more operating parameters,
wherein the one or more operating parameters comprises one or more of a counted number of occurrences of a throttle change required by the trip plan for the vehicle system, or a rate of the counted number of occurrences of the throttle change required by the trip plan for the vehicle system.