Remote controlled vehicle systems
OwnerWilliam Howard Culverinventor
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Abstract
Remote controlled vehicle systems for the surveillance of and/or action on objects spaced from the point of control including a control or information receiving station and means for modulating a beam of light receivable at the control or information receiving station by intelligence bearing signals generated at the vehicle. The beam of light receivable at the control station may be a laser beam or a light beam carried by an optically conductive fiber or fiber bundle. Control signals may be transmitted to the vehicle by a modulated laser beam or a fiber-carried beam or by radio frequency signals.
Claims17
A communication system for the remote control of a vehicle, control mechanism carried by the vehicle to be controlled, a control station, means for generating electromagnetic control signals at said control station, means for generating intelligence bearing signals at the vehicle, means for modulating a beam of light receivable at the control station by said intelligence bearing signals generated at the vehicle wherein the vehicle is controlled by electromagnetic signals imposed at the control station and wherein the modulating means comprises a retroreflector carried by the vehicle.
A remotely piloted assembly including a vehicle, a beam-modulating retroreflector receiving laser-beam-carried control signals from a control station, means for releasably mounting the retroreflector to the vehicle and optical filament means connecting the vehicle and the retroreflector for transmitting signals between the vehicle and the control station.
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