Remote position management
AssigneeRhodan Marine Systems of Florida, LLC
InventorLindsay Ambler
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Abstract
The application relates to systems and techniques for remotely navigating a marine vessel. The systems can include a dynamic positioning system and/or a marine location management system for remotely navigating a marine vessel. The marine location management system can include a communication module for receiving a geographic location of the marine vessel and transmitting a navigation plan to a vessel control system. The marine location management system can also include a processor adapted to determine the geographical coordinates of the marine location and the marine vessel. In some cases, the marine vessel can include a thruster system adapted to receive the navigation plan and determine a set of thrust vectors based on the navigation plan.
Claims14
A dynamic positioning system for remotely navigating a marine vessel to a marine location characterized by geographical coordinates, the dynamic positioning system comprising:
- a marine location management system comprising:
- a storage medium adapted to store geographical coordinates of at least one marine location;
- a communication module adapted to receive a geographical location of the marine vessel and transmit a navigation plan to the vessel control system to direct the marine vessel to one of the at least one marine location;
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- a processor, in communication with the storage medium and the communication module, adapted to determine the navigation plan based on the geographical coordinates of the at least one marine location and the geographical location of the marine vessel;
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- a thruster system coupled to the marine vessel and comprising:
- (i) at least one trolling motor;
- and
- (ii) a controller adapted to:
- receive the navigation plan from the communication module;
- determine a set of thrust vectors based on the navigation plan;
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- control the at least one trolling motor based on the set of thrust vectors to steer the marine vessel to the at least one marine location.
A method for remotely navigating a marine vessel to a marine location, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a communication module of a marine location management system, geographical coordinates of at least one marine location;
- receiving, by the communication module, a geographical location of the marine vessel;
- determining, by a processor in communication with the communication module, a navigation plan based on the geographical coordinates of the at least one marine location and the geographical location of the marine vessel;
- transmitting, by the communication module, the navigation plan to a vessel control system of the marine vessel to direct the marine vessel to one of the at least one marine location;
- determining, by the vessel control system, a set of thrust vectors based on the navigation plan;
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- transmitting, by the vessel control system to at least one trolling motor of the marine vessel, the set of thrust vectors.
A marine location management system for remotely navigating a marine vessel, the marine location management system being located remote from the marine vessel and adapted to communicate with a vessel control system of the marine vessel, the marine location management system comprising:
- a storage medium adapted to store geographical coordinates of at least one marine location;
- a communication module adapted to receive a geographical location of the marine vessel and transmit a set of thrust vectors to the vessel control system to direct the marine vessel to one of the at least one marine location;
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- a processor, in communication with the storage medium and the communication module, adapted to determine the set of thrust vectors based on the geographical coordinates of the at least one marine location and the geographical location of the marine vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.