Patent ID: 7184863
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: B64D,G08G,H04B

Abstract:
1. A monitoring and control system for manned vehicles, comprising drive means ( 2 ), control means ( 3 ) and navigation means ( 4 ) for location determination and vehicle-status determination, wherein said control means ( 3 ) may be operated depending on information data of said navigation means ( 4 ) from a control station ( 30 ) or, in a switchable manner, from an autopilot control station ( 32 ), and said navigation means are linked with a set of sensors for obtaining actual-vehicle-state data, wherein said actual-vehicle-state data may be transmitted via a satellite transmission path ( 6 ) to a ground station ( 8 ) and be stored there for a particular period of time, and said vehicle may be remote-controlled from said ground station ( 8 ) depending on a particular evaluation result of said actual-vehicle-state data, wherein a data packet ( depending on a second particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field ( depending on a third particular evaluation result, switching back to said control means (