Patent ID: 8585457

Claim:
Process for operating a digital control system for several objects to be controlled, in particular for track-guided toy vehicles on a car race track, comprising at least one digital decoder in each object to be controlled and an operating device for each object to be controlled, said operating device connected to a control center, and including digitally converting the settings of at least one manually operated actuating element for controlling one of the objects assigned to the operating device, wherein digitally encoded data packets are transmitted to the digital decoders via the control center, said data packets contain in each case at least status information of at least one actuating element of an operating device, and a digital address which creates the assignment between the operating device and one of the objects is transmitted to the digital decoders wherein each operating device is assigned a digital address and the digital address of the operating device to which the object is assigned is stored in the digital decoder, where using one of the digitally encoded data packets, depending upon status data of the actuating elements of the assigned operating device in said one of the digitally encoded data packet with the same digital address stored in the digital decoder, the digital decoder selects the control commands for the toy vehicle derived from said status data and depending upon a physical status of the toy vehicle, and transmits the control commands to the toy vehicle.