Vehicle control system
OwnerBenjamin Malayinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle control system may include a vehicle frame, a mount secured to the vehicle frame and configured for rigidly securing a smartphone therein such that motions experienced by the vehicle frame are correspondingly experienced by the smartphone, and system electronics arranged on the frame and in communication with the smartphone and vehicle controllers, the system electronics configured to receive signals from the smartphone and control directional devices of the vehicle based on the signals via the vehicle controllers. A system for preparing signals for transmission to the vehicle to control navigation may also be provided.
Claims24
A system of control components for a vehicle, comprising:
- a mount secured to the vehicle and configured for rigidly securing a smartphone therein such that motions experienced by the vehicle are correspondingly experienced by the smartphone, and such that an internally defined three-dimensional reference frame of the smartphone is positioned and maintained in substantial alignment with a three-dimensional reference frame of the vehicle such that, at a point in time, the orientation of the internally defined reference frame defines an orientation of the vehicle, allowing the smartphone to autonomously track and control the orientation of the vehicle in three-dimensional space in real-time;
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- system electronics arranged on the vehicle and in communication with the smartphone and electromechanical control devices, the system electronics configured to:
- receive autonomous control signals from the smartphone for controlling orientation of the vehicle in three-dimensional space, the control signals based on continuously tracked variations of the vehicle orientation from the vehicle orientation defined at the point in time;
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- based on the received control signals, control directional devices of the vehicle via the electromechanical control devices.
A system of control components for a vehicle, comprising:
- a self-contained handheld computing device comprising a computer readable storage medium, a processor, a user interface and an output and comprising an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an attitude sensor, and a positioning system;
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- computer implemented instructions configured for autonomously controlling navigation of the vehicle performable by the processor and stored on the computer readable storage medium, the instructions comprising:
- storing an orientation of a reference frame of the computing device relative to an orientation of a reference frame of the vehicle at a point in time;
- electrically receiving in real-time information sensed by at least two of the accelerometer, the gyroscope, the attitude sensor, and the positioning system;
- continuously performing real-time error correction of the information received in real-time and sensed by at least one of the accelerometer, gyroscope, attitude sensor, and positioning system;
- continuously calculating an orientation of the vehicle, wherein calculating an orientation of the vehicle comprises combining real-time sensed and/or corrected information for at least two of the accelerometer, the gyroscope, the attitude sensor, and the positioning system;
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- based on the calculated orientation of the vehicle, preparing control signals for transmission to the vehicle to autonomously control navigation of the vehicle in three-dimensional space via electromechanical control devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.