Method and apparatus for automatic repetition rate assignment in a remote control system

摘要

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for remotely controlling devices, more particularly to a system and method for controlling locomotives in a railway environment using radio frequency signals. This invention makes use of equalized pseudo-random transmission intervals obtained using a random number generator to regulate the times at which the signals are sent from a transmitter to a receiver. The use of these randomly generated transmission intervals allows eliminating the requirement of having an operator manage these intervals for transmitters in simultaneous operation. The invention also provides communication systems operating concurrently with substantially uniform response times by constraining the values of the transmission intervals to lie within a given range.