Monitoring and control system for manned vehicles
First Claim
1. A monitoring and control system for manned vehicles, comprising drive means (2), control means (3) and navigation means (4) for location determination and vehicle-status determination, wherein said control means (3) may be operated depending on information data of said navigation means (4) from a control station (30) or, in a switchable manner, from an autopilot control station (32), and said navigation means are linked with a set of sensors for obtaining actual-vehicle-state data, wherein said actual-vehicle-state data may be transmitted via a satellite transmission path (6) to a ground station (8) and be stored there for a particular period of time, and said vehicle may be remote-controlled from said ground station (8) depending on a particular evaluation result of said actual-vehicle-state data,wherein a data packet (13) containing a vehicle identification field (14), a time indicator field (15), a continuously updated position field (16), a continuously updated vehicle-status field (17) and a pilot-confirmation field (18), is transmitted in a first timing by means of transmitter/receiver means (33) of said vehicle (1) via said satellite transmission path (6) and/or directly (7) to said ground station (8), and said data packet may be evaluated by evaluation means located in said vehicle or in said ground station (8) for the generation of three generation results;
- such that depending on a first particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field (18), continuous storing of said data packets is carried out over a limited period of time in said ground station (8),depending on a second particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field (18), continuous storing is carried out over a period of time longer in comparison with said limited period of time in said ground station (8), and at the same time a switchover signal is transmitted from said ground station (8) via said one or via another satellite data transmission path (6) or a direct data transmission channel (7) to said vehicle (1), which switchover signal switches over said control means (3) from being linked with said control station (30) to being linked to said autopilot control station (32) without being subject to influence by the cockpit; and
depending on a third particular evaluation result, switching back to said control means (3) being linked with said control station (30) is only effected by a reset signal which again is not subject to influence by the cockpit, which reset signal is generated by said ground station (8), depending on said third particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field (18), and transmitted to said vehicle.
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Abstract
A monitoring and control system for manned vehicles is being proposed, wherein an automatic early-on recognition of emergencies and an automatic specification of measures to be taken in accordance with a separate escalation assessment concerning the development of the emergency in question are made possible, in that data packets comprising a vehicle identification field, a time indicator field, a continuously updated position field, a continuously updated vehicle-status field and a pilot-confirmation field are either transmitted from the vehicle to a ground station and evaluated there or is transmitted to the ground station already having been evaluated, wherein continuous storing of the data packets is carried out over a limited period of time in the ground station when a first evaluation result is present; in the event of the occurrence of a second particular evaluation result storing is carried out over a longer period of time and at the same time a switchover signal is transmitted to the vehicle, which switchover signal switches over the control from being linked with the cockpit to being linked with the autopilot control station control without being subject to influence by the cockpit, and wherein switching back to the control means being linked with the cockpit is only effected by a reset signal which again is not subject to influence by the cockpit, which reset signal is generated by the ground station, depending on a third particular evaluation result concerning the pilot-confirmation field, and transmitted to the vehicle.
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1. A monitoring and control system for manned vehicles, comprising drive means (2), control means (3) and navigation means (4) for location determination and vehicle-status determination, wherein said control means (3) may be operated depending on information data of said navigation means (4) from a control station (30) or, in a switchable manner, from an autopilot control station (32), and said navigation means are linked with a set of sensors for obtaining actual-vehicle-state data, wherein said actual-vehicle-state data may be transmitted via a satellite transmission path (6) to a ground station (8) and be stored there for a particular period of time, and said vehicle may be remote-controlled from said ground station (8) depending on a particular evaluation result of said actual-vehicle-state data,
wherein a data packet (13) containing a vehicle identification field (14), a time indicator field (15), a continuously updated position field (16), a continuously updated vehicle-status field (17) and a pilot-confirmation field (18), is transmitted in a first timing by means of transmitter/receiver means (33) of said vehicle (1) via said satellite transmission path (6) and/or directly (7) to said ground station (8), and said data packet may be evaluated by evaluation means located in said vehicle or in said ground station (8) for the generation of three generation results; - such that depending on a first particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field (18), continuous storing of said data packets is carried out over a limited period of time in said ground station (8),
depending on a second particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field (18), continuous storing is carried out over a period of time longer in comparison with said limited period of time in said ground station (8), and at the same time a switchover signal is transmitted from said ground station (8) via said one or via another satellite data transmission path (6) or a direct data transmission channel (7) to said vehicle (1), which switchover signal switches over said control means (3) from being linked with said control station (30) to being linked to said autopilot control station (32) without being subject to influence by the cockpit; and depending on a third particular evaluation result, switching back to said control means (3) being linked with said control station (30) is only effected by a reset signal which again is not subject to influence by the cockpit, which reset signal is generated by said ground station (8), depending on said third particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field (18), and transmitted to said vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
- such that depending on a first particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field (18), continuous storing of said data packets is carried out over a limited period of time in said ground station (8),
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