CN104238382A - Remote control system and aircraft control system thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a remote control system and an aircraft control system thereof. The remote control system includes a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal includes a first communication chip, the remote control system also includes a control data collector, the control data collector includes a processor, multiple remote control levers and multiple A remote control switch. wherein the processor collects flight control data input by the user through the remote control stick and the remote control switch, wherein the control data collector sends the flight control data to the mobile terminal, and the first communication chip The flight control data is sent to external devices. The aircraft control system includes a model aircraft and a remote control system as described above. The present invention achieves high flight control accuracy and good operability while utilizing the high performance and multiple implementations of related resources of existing mobile terminals, thereby realizing a high-performance, low-cost control scheme.

Description

Remote control system and its aircraft control system

technical field

The invention relates to a remote control system and its aircraft control system, in particular to a remote control system for controlling the flight state of a model aircraft and its aircraft control system.

Background technique

At present, there are two main control methods for model aircraft on the market: the solution of combining a dedicated remote control with a model aircraft, and the solution of combining a smartphone or a tablet with a model aircraft.

Among them, the scheme of integrating the model aircraft with a dedicated remote controller is a traditional control scheme of the model aircraft. The remote control includes an operating handle and a control launch board, etc. Due to the limitation of size and cost, the remote control generally has no or only a few simple colored lights or a small indicating screen to display the working status of the remote control, and the remote control launch board generally only has a simple single-chip microcomputer to support the work. Thereby the use effect is limited. Even some high-end remote controls are equipped with high-resolution displays and powerful CPUs (central processing units) and even built-in operating systems. But the price of the whole set of remote control is very expensive.

Among them, the smart phone or tablet computer combined with the model aircraft scheme uses the existing smart phone as the remote control of the model aircraft, which has the advantage of low cost. This is because the existing smart phone is used directly, so the cost of the remote control is reduced; Moreover, the function is powerful, the operating system of the smart phone can complete various parameter designs, and the existing smart phone display screen can be utilized. But its disadvantage is that when controlling the aircraft, since there is no professional remote control handle, the operating accuracy and operability of the aircraft are much poorer. The operating accuracy and operability of the model aircraft are the main pursuits of the users of the model aircraft, so the solution seriously affects the operator's sense of use.

Contents of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a remote control system and its aircraft control system in order to overcome the defects of high cost and poor operability of the remote control mode of the model aircraft in the prior art. The present invention utilizes the existing mobile terminal Related resources, and a professional remote control handle are added to achieve a high-performance, low-cost control solution.

The present invention solves the above technical problems through the following technical solutions:

The present invention provides a remote control system, which includes a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal includes a first communication chip, and the feature is that the remote control system also includes a control data collector, and the control data collector includes a processing controller, a plurality of remote control sticks and a plurality of remote control switches, wherein the processor collects the flight control data input by the user through the remote control stick and the remote control switch, wherein the control data collector transmits the flight control data through a bluetooth interface The control data is sent to the mobile terminal, and the first communication chip of the mobile terminal sends the flight control data to an external device.

The flight control data described in the present invention are commonly used data instructions for controlling the flight posture or state of the model aircraft in the prior art, and will not be described in detail here.

Preferably, the control data collector is connected through a USART (Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Serial Receiver/Transmitter) interface, an I ² C interface (Inter-Integrated Circuit, two-wire serial bus) or a USB (Universal The serial bus) interface replaces the Bluetooth interface to send the flight control data to the mobile terminal.

In the present invention, the Bluetooth interface can no longer be used, but the USART interface, I ² C interface or USB interface can be used to send flight control data.

Preferably, the mobile terminal further includes a display screen, the first communication chip is also used for receiving flight status data, and the display screen displays the flight status data.

The flight state data in the present invention is the signal data collected by the model aircraft in the prior art and used to characterize the flight state of the model aircraft.

Preferably, the first communication chip is a WIFI (wireless fidelity, wireless fidelity) communication chip.

Preferably, the mobile terminal is a mobile phone or a tablet computer.

The mobile terminal described in the present invention can be any mobile phone or computer with a communication chip in the prior art, so the mobile terminal in the present invention can be an iphone of Apple Inc. ipad tablet or ipad2 tablet.

The present invention also provides an aircraft control system, which includes a model aircraft, and the model aircraft includes a flight control board for controlling the flight state of the model aircraft, and is characterized in that the aircraft control system also includes a The remote control system as described above, wherein the flight control board further includes a third communication chip, and the flight control board also controls the flight status of the model aircraft through the flight control data received by the third communication chip.

Preferably, the flight control board also collects flight status data of the model aircraft, and sends the flight status data to the remote control system through the third communication chip.

The flight control board in the present invention can not only control the flight status of the model aircraft based on the control signal, but also collect the working status of each component in the model aircraft.

Preferably, the third communication chip is a WIFI communication chip or a 2.4G ISM FSK transceiver.

At this time, in the present invention, only the mobile terminal is used as a device for interacting with external devices, and all flight control data are transmitted to the mobile terminal first, and then to external devices.

Preferably, the above-mentioned mobile terminal further includes a video processing module, a storage module, and an input module;

Wherein the video processing module is used to convert flight status data and/or video data into display signals and output them to the display screen;

The storage module is used to store the flight status data and/or the video data;

The input module is used to read in input parameters, generate flight state configuration parameters based on the parameters, and send them to external devices through the first communication chip.

The video processing module, storage module and input module described in the present invention are all commonly used components in mobile terminals, so they will not be described in detail here.

Preferably, the mobile terminal further includes a voice synthesis module and a speaker, which are used to convert the flight status data into voice signals and output them through the speaker.

Preferably, the mobile terminal further includes a voice recognition module and a microphone, the voice recognition module generates parameter data based on the voice control signal collected by the microphone, and the input module also generates flight status based on the parameter data configuration parameters.

The speech synthesis module, loudspeaker, speech recognition module and microphone described in the present invention are also conventional components or modules in the mobile terminal in the prior art, so details will not be repeated here.

For ease of description, in the present invention, the mobile terminal is divided into various modules according to functions and described separately, so when implementing the present invention, the functions of each module can be implemented in the same or multiple software and/or hardware.

On the basis of conforming to common knowledge in the field, the above-mentioned preferred conditions can be combined arbitrarily to obtain preferred examples of the present invention.

The positive progress effect of the present invention is:

The advantages of the control data collector, remote control system and aircraft control system of the present invention are that there are not only professional remote control operating handles, but also the use of relevant resources of mobile terminals, so the flight control accuracy is high and the operability is good. At the same time, the high performance and various implementations of relevant resources of the existing mobile terminal are utilized, thereby realizing a high performance and low cost control scheme.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 1 of the aircraft control system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the control data collector of Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The present invention is further illustrated below by means of examples, but the present invention is not limited to the scope of the examples.

Example 1:

The aircraft control system in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1 , includes a remote control system 1 and a model aircraft 2 , wherein the remote control system 1 includes a control data collector 11 and a mobile terminal 12 .

And as shown in FIG. 2 , the control data collector 11 of this embodiment includes a processor 111 , two remote control levers 112 and two remote control switches 113 .

Wherein the processor 111 collects the user's operation on the remote control stick 112 and the remote control switch 113, and the signal generated by the user's operation on the remote control stick 112 and the remote control switch 113 constitutes a flight control model aircraft. control data.

In addition, the number of the remote control lever 112 and the remote control switch 113 can be set arbitrarily based on the needs of the actual model aircraft control commands, and is not limited to the number in this embodiment.

The mobile terminal 12 of the present embodiment, as shown in Figure 3, includes a video processing module 121a, a display screen 121b, a storage module 122, an input module 123, a speech synthesis module 125, a loudspeaker 126, a speech recognition module 127 , a microphone 128 and a WIFI communication chip 129.

The video processing module 121a is used to convert the flight status data into a display signal and output it to the display screen 121b of the mobile terminal 12, and the display screen 121b displays accordingly. The storage module 122 is used for storing the flight status data. The input module 125 is used to read in the input parameters, and generate flight state configuration parameters based on the parameters, and then send them to the model aircraft through the WIFI communication chip 129 . The flight state configuration parameters described in this embodiment are used to adjust and supplement the flight state data.

The voice synthesis module 125 is used to convert the flight status data into a voice signal and output it to the outside through the speaker 126, so that the user can hear the voice signal containing the content of the flight status data.

The voice recognition module 127 generates parameter data based on the voice control signal collected by the microphone 128, and the input module 123 also generates flight state configuration parameters based on the parameter data.

The WIFI communication chip 129 in this embodiment is used for data interaction with the model aircraft 2 .

Wherein the mobile terminal 2 of present embodiment adopts the iphone mobile phone or the ipad panel computer of the Apple Company that comprises above-mentioned module, can also adopt the mobile phone or tablet computer with intelligent systems such as iOS, Android (Android), Symbian (Symbian) in addition, and The mobile terminal 2 in this embodiment is formed after corresponding configuration.

As shown in Figure 1, the model aircraft 2 includes a flight control board 21, wherein the flight control board includes a WIFI communication chip 211, the WIFI communication chip 211 is matched with the WIFI communication chip 129 in the mobile terminal 12 and Perform corresponding data interaction, that is, establish a data link between the WIFI communication chip 211 and the WIFI communication chip 129 . Wherein the flight control board 21 controls the flight action of the model aircraft 2 based on the received flight control data, and correspondingly collects the flight status data composed of the status data of each component of the model aircraft 2 .

In addition, in this embodiment, the flight control data is transmitted between the mobile terminal 12 and the control data collector 11 through a Bluetooth interface. In addition, the user can also use a high-speed data transmission interface such as a USB interface to transmit the flight control data.

As shown in Figure 1, the flow of data transmission in this embodiment is as follows:

Firstly, the processor 111 of the control data collector 11 collects the flight control data generated by the user's operation on the remote control stick 112 and the remote control switch 113 .

Then the processor 111 transmits the flight control data to the mobile terminal 12 through the Bluetooth interface. At the same time, the input module 123 , speech synthesis module 125 , speaker 126 , speech recognition module 127 and microphone 128 in the mobile terminal 12 work together to generate flight state configuration parameters.

Thereafter, the WIFI communication chip 129 of the mobile terminal 12 sends the flight control data, or flight control data and flight state configuration parameters to the WIFI communication chip 211 of the flight control board 21 of the model aircraft 2 that matches.

Then the flight control board 21 controls the flight action of the model aircraft 2 based on the received flight control data, or flight control data and flight state configuration parameters. The flight state data of the model aircraft is sent to the WIFI communication chip 129 matched therewith.

Finally, the video processing module 121a of the mobile terminal 12 converts the flight status data received by the WIFI communication chip 129 into a display signal and outputs it to the display screen 121b of the mobile terminal 12, and then the display screen 121b displays accordingly .

Although the specific embodiments of the present invention have been described above, those skilled in the art should understand that these are only examples, and the protection scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims. Those skilled in the art can make various changes or modifications to these embodiments without departing from the principle and essence of the present invention, but these changes and modifications all fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (11)

1. a telechirics, comprise a mobile terminal, described mobile terminal comprises one first communication chip, it is characterized in that, described telechirics also comprises a control data collector, and described control data collector comprises a processor, multiple remote-control lever and multiple teleswitch;

Wherein said processor gathers the flight control data of user's input by described remote-control lever and described teleswitch; Described flight control data is sent to described mobile terminal by a blue tooth interface by described control data collector, and described flight control data is sent to external unit by described first communication chip.

2. telechirics as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, described control data collector is by a USART interface, I ²c interface or a USB interface replace described blue tooth interface and described flight control data are sent to described mobile terminal.

3. telechirics as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described mobile terminal also comprises a display screen, and described first communication chip is also for receiving Flight Condition Data, and described display screen shows described Flight Condition Data.

4. telechirics as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described first communication chip is WIFI communication chip.

5. telechirics as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described mobile terminal is mobile phone or panel computer.

6. the telechirics according to any one of claim 1-5, is characterized in that, also comprises a video processing module, a memory module and a load module in described mobile terminal;

Wherein said video processing module is used for that described Flight Condition Data and/or described video data are converted into display and exports described display screen to;

Described memory module is for storing described Flight Condition Data and/or described video data;

Described load module for reading in the parameter of input, and generates described state of flight configuration parameter based on described parameter, and is sent to external unit by described first communication chip.

7. telechirics as claimed in claim 6, be is characterized in that, also comprise a voice synthetic module and a loudspeaker in described mobile terminal, for described Flight Condition Data is converted into voice signal, and exported by loudspeaker.

8. telechirics as claimed in claims 6 or 7, it is characterized in that, a sound identification module and a microphone is also comprised in described mobile terminal, the audio controls that described sound identification module gathers based on described microphone, generate supplemental characteristic, described load module also generates described state of flight configuration parameter based on described supplemental characteristic.

9. a flight control system, it comprises a model aerial vehicle, described model aerial vehicle comprises one of state of flight for controlling described model aerial vehicle and flies to control plate, it is characterized in that, described flight control system also comprises just like the telechirics described in any one of claim 1-8, the wherein said control plate that flies also comprises a third communication chip, described in fly to control the state of flight that described flight control data that plate also received by described third communication chip controls described model aerial vehicle.

10. flight control system as claimed in claim 9, is characterized in that, described in fly to control the Flight Condition Data that plate also gathers described model aerial vehicle, and by described third communication chip, described Flight Condition Data is sent to described telechirics.

11. flight control systems as described in claim 9 or 10, it is characterized in that, described third communication chip is WIFI communication chip or 2.4G ISM FSK transceiver.