| US 7,548,697 B2 | ||
| Method and device for controlling a remote vehicle | ||
| Edison Hudson, 118 Little Branch Trail, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27517 (US); and Robert Todd Pack, 27 Vieckis Dr., Nashua, N.H. 03062 (US) | ||
| Filed on May 14, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/748,463. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/747183, filed on May 12, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0063400 A1, Mar. 13, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04B 10/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 398—106 [398/107; 398/109] | 23 Claims |
| 1. A method for controlling a remote vehicle, comprising:
enabling a laser designator mode on a remote vehicle;
illuminating a designated destination for the remote vehicle with a laser beam;
searching for the designated destination with a sensor on the remote vehicle;
determining whether a unique code embedded in the laser beam corresponds to the remote vehicle when the remote vehicle senses
a laser beam designating a destination;
calculating a vector angle from the sensor input to the designated destination;
computing a trajectory to the designated destination; and
moving the remote vehicle to the designated destination when the unique code embedded in the laser beam corresponds to the
remote vehicle.
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