Patent ID: 7184863

Claim:
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 ( 13 ) containing a vehicle identification field ( 14 ), a time indicator field ( 15 ), a continuously updated position field ( 16 ), a continuously updated vehicle-status field ( 17 ) and a pilot-confirmation field ( 18 ), is transmitted in a first timing by means of transmitter/receiver means ( 33 ) of said vehicle ( 1 ) via said satellite transmission path ( 6 ) and/or directly ( 7 ) to said ground station ( 8 ), and said data packet may be evaluated by evaluation means located in said vehicle or in said ground station ( 8 ) for the generation of three generation results; such that depending on a first particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field ( 18 ), continuous storing of said data packets is carried out over a limited period of time in said ground station ( 8 ), depending on a second particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field ( 18 ), continuous storing is carried out over a period of time longer in comparison with said limited period of time in said ground station ( 8 ), and at the same time a switchover signal is transmitted from said ground station ( 8 ) via said one or via another satellite data transmission path ( 6 ) or a direct data transmission channel ( 7 ) to said vehicle ( 1 ), which switchover signal switches over said control means ( 3 ) from being linked with said control station ( 30 ) to being linked to said autopilot control station ( 32 ) without being subject to influence by the cockpit; and depending on a third particular evaluation result, switching back to said control means ( 3 ) being linked with said control station ( 30 ) is only effected by a reset signal which again is not subject to influence by the cockpit, which reset signal is generated by said ground station ( 8 ), depending on said third particular evaluation result concerning said pilot-confirmation field ( 18 ), and transmitted to said vehicle.