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US 8,375,838 B2Granted
Remote digital firing system
AssigneeiRobot Corporation
InventorsPavlo E. Rudakevych, Mike E. Ciholas, Robert Pack
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Abstract
An apparatus for weaponizing a mobile robotic platform with a mechanically triggered weapon and a firing circuit provides a weaponized mobile robotic platform, in which the mechanically triggered weapon can be fired in a safe, secure, and controlled manner in response to a single electrical pulse from the firing circuit.
Claims18
A method for firing a weapon mounted on a robotic platform, comprising:
- receiving a control code sent by an operator control unit to the robotic platform;
- validating the control code;
- arming a firing circuit when the control code is valid;
- transmitting a signal to a sequencing circuit configured to control a mechanical control assembly connected to the weapon;
- and operating the mechanical control assembly with the sequencing circuit to arm a disarmed weapon, wait until a delay period has elapsed, trigger the weapon, and disarm the weapon,
- wherein validating the control codes include determining whether the control codes were encoded with a key programmed by the robotic platform.
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A method for firing a weapon mounted on a robotic platform, comprising:
- transmitting a signal to a sequencing circuit configured to control a mechanical control assembly connected to the weapon;
- and
- operating the mechanical control assembly with the sequencing circuit to arm the weapon;
- wait until a time delay period has elapsed, the time delay period representing a delay that can occur between a time a signal is sent to arm the weapon and a time when a trigger of the weapon is operable to actuate and fire the weapon;
- and trigger the weapon;
- and
- validating control codes before transmitting the signal to the sequencing circuit, wherein validating the control codes includes determining whether the control codes were encoded with a key programmed by the robotic platform.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.