The conventional retarder speed control system is a misnomer. In particular, there are many system configurations one can put together with “conventional” hardware. Herein, we discuss several of these configurations, including: retarder types, poor man’s hump yard, and normal hump yard. The paper describes each of these configurations.
Herein we implement an approximate headway control algorithm similar to that outlined in Note 6, using some of the energy formulas described in Note 7...
The first step to improving the performance of retarder control algorithms is to conduct an exhaustive study of existing algorithms. Retarder control ...
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