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Determining and providing vehicle conditions and capabilities

  • US 8,106,753 B2
  • Filed: 08/27/2008
  • Issued: 01/31/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of using one or more vehicles to perform a mission, the method comprising:

  • using a remotely located system to receive, from a transponder module of each of the one or more vehicles, information describing a plurality of current subsystem conditions and a plurality of current capabilities of each vehicle;

    using the remotely located system to evaluate the information, in real time, to enable the remotely located system to update conditions and capabilities for each vehicle in a mission capabilities matrix;

    using the remotely located system to transmit additional information, in real time, to at least one of the one or more vehicles, based on the updated matrix, that facilitates performing one or more of the following;

    controlling at least a component of the at least one of the one or more vehicles;

    modifying a task of the at least one of the one or more vehicles; and

    modifying the mission.

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