Patent ID: 8350810

Claim:
A control system for operation of a remote vehicle, comprising: a twin-grip hand-held controller having a volume of less than 1 liter and a weight of less than 1 lb, the twin-grip hand-held controller including: a left grip shaped to be held between a user's left little finger, ring finger, and the ball of the thumb, leaving the user's left index finger, middle finger, and thumb free; a left control zone adjacent to the left grip, having a first plurality of input devices including a first analog joystick and a 4-way directional control manipulable by the left thumb, and a left rocker control located on a shoulder portion of the controller; a right handed grip shaped to be held between the user's right little finger, ring finger, and the ball of the thumb, leaving the user's left index finger, middle finger, and thumb free; a right control zone adjacent the right grip, having a second plurality of input devices including a second analog joystick and at least one manipulable input mechanism manipulable by the right thumb, and a right rocker control located on a shoulder portion of the controller; a mode changer configured to receive an input to change between two or more function modes, each function mode assigning different functions to one or more of the input devices; and a pose control configured to receive input to select one or more predetermined poses of the remote vehicle.