In one embodiment, a general-purpose wireless mobile device having a touch-sensitive screen and executing a remote control application is used to remotely control a vehicle (e.g., a marine vessel). The general-purpose wireless mobile device communicates via a wireless network with an interface (e.g., a server) that is coupled to an electronic control system of the vehicle (e.g., the vessel). In operation, environmental information and/or system status information is collected through the electronic control system, propagated to the interface (e.g., server), and then sent over the wireless network to the wireless mobile device. Similarly, control input is sent over the wireless network to the interface (e.g., server), which passes the information to the electronic control system, which in turn issues appropriate control signals to the vehicle subsystems (e.g., marine subsystems) to control the motion of the vehicle (e.g., the vessel).
REMOTE MOTION CONTROL USING A GENERAL-PURPOSE WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICE
BEWEGUNGSFERNSTEUERUNG MITHILFE EINER DRAHTLOSEN MOBILEN ALLZWECKVORRICHTUNG
COMMANDE DE DÉPLACEMENT À DISTANCE, AU MOYEN D'UN DISPOSITIF MOBILE SANS FIL D'USAGE COURANT
2018-07-11
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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