Inventors:
Leigh E. Sherman - North Wales PA
Gary L. Whatcott - Holladay UT
Richard M. Dicks - Salt Lake City UT
David C. Madsen - Sandy UT
Assignee:
Eaton-Kenway, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT
International Classification:
G06F 1548
Abstract:
A guidance system for guiding a plurality of unmanned vehicles along guide wires. A plurality of data communication circuits are provided which form an extensive network. A traffic control computer composes a coded vehicle instruction for assigning tasks and allocates resources to said unmanned vehicles. The traffic control computer polls the status of each vehicle at varying time intervals and receives a response from said vehicle. The network connecting the computer and the communication circuits prevents reception of data transmissions from more than one vehicle at a time. Other messages are temporarily, stored. Data transmitters generate low frequency, low power signals which have a high data transmission rate. Digital data is converted at the transmitters into cosine waveforms of selected frequencies. The cosine waveforms are transposed into sine waveforms at receivers.