Todd P Graham

US Patent:

20140214239, Jul 31, 2014

Filed:

Jan 29, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/753029

Inventors:

QinetiQ North America, Inc. - , US
Boian Bentchev - Norwood MA, US
Julie Shapiro - Marlborough MA, US
Todd Graham - Pittsburgh PA, US
Daniel Deguire - Blackstone MA, US

Assignee:

QinetiQ North America, Inc. - McLean VA

International Classification:

G05D 1/02
G08C 17/02

US Classification:

701 2, 340 125

Abstract:

An unmanned systems operator control system includes a hand held controller with a set of switches and control enumeration software specially configured to report a superset of virtual switches based on the physical switches. A core unit includes a first unmanned system control application subscribing to a first switch subset of the superset and outputting commands controlling a first unmanned system based on activation of the set of switches. A second unmanned system control application subscribes to a second switch subset of the superset and outputs commands controlling a second unmanned system based on activation of the set of switches. A mode switching subsystem is configured, in a first state, to map the set of switches to the first switch subset and, in a second state, to map the set of switches to the second switch subset.