REMOTE MOTION CONTROL USING A WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

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).

主权项

1. A system comprising:
an interface coupled to an electronic control system of a vehicle; and a general-purpose wireless mobile device having a touch-sensitive screen in communication with the interface via a wireless network, the general-purpose wireless mobile device configured to execute a remote control application that includes:
a packet delivery module configured to exchange packets with the interface over the wireless network,a network health monitor configured to use packet data to determine a network health score, and based on the network health score, permit or disable remote motion control of the vehicle via the general-purpose wireless mobile device, anda user interface (UI) configured to display environmental information and/or system status information for the vehicle on the touch-sensitive screen of the general-purpose wireless mobile, and to receive on the touch-sensitive screen control input indicating desired motion control for the vehicle,wherein, when remote motion control is permitted, the control input is passed to the interface to cause the electronic control system to issues control signals to subsystems to control motion of the vehicle.