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Industrial remote controls work differently from most consumer products. When the receiver receives the radio signal which the transmitter sent, it checks it so that it is the correct frequency and that any security codes match. Once the verification is complete, the receiver sends an instruction to
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that do not stay on one set frequency any longer while in use, the older "exclusive use" provisions at model flying sites needed for VHF-band RC control systems' frequency control, for VHF-band RC systems that only used one set frequency unless serviced to change it, are not as mandatory as before.
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The idea of controlling unmanned vehicles (for the most part in an attempt to improve the accuracy of torpedoes for military purposes) predates the invention of radio. The latter half of the 1800s saw development of many such devices, connected to an operator by wires, including the first practical
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with better selectivity and stability made control equipment more capable and at lower cost. Multi-channel developments were of particular use to aircraft, which really needed a minimum of three control dimensions (yaw, pitch and motor speed), as opposed to boats, which required only two or one.
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developed many techniques used in subsequent radio control including developing remote controlled torpedoes, ships, anti-jamming systems and even a system allowing his remote-controlled ship targeting an enemy ship's searchlights. In 1922 he installed radio control gear on the obsolete US Navy
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acting on the control surfaces of the missile. The controller's radio transmitter would transmit the different frequencies in response to the movements of a control stick; these were typically on/off signals. The radio gear used to control the rudder function on the American-developed
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greatly reduced the battery requirements, since the current requirements at low voltage were greatly reduced and the high voltage battery was eliminated. In both tube and early transistor sets the model's control surfaces were usually operated by an electromagnetic
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Industrial remote controls are getting more and higher safety requirements. For example: a remote control may not lose the safety functionality in case of malfunction. This can be avoided by using redundant relays with forced contacts.
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Getting rid of the wires via using a new wireless technology, radio, appeared in the late 1890s. In 1897 British engineer Ernest Wilson and C. J. Evans patented a radio-controlled torpedo or demonstrated radio-controlled boats on the
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RC control systems have become increasingly utilized in control of model vehicles and aircraft. Now, these 2.4 GHz systems are being made by most radio manufacturers. These radio systems range in price from a couple thousand
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Remote control military applications are typically not radio control in the direct sense, directly operating flight control surfaces and propulsion power settings, but instead take the form of instructions sent to a completely
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Both the British and US also developed radio control systems for similar tasks, to avoid the huge anti-aircraft batteries set up around German targets. However, no system proved usable in practice, and the one major US effort,
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The United Kingdom's World War One development of their radio-controlled 1917 'Aerial Target' (AT) and 1918 'Distant Control Boat' (DCB) using Low's control systems led eventually to their 1930s fleet of
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signal, and a receiver, which was able to set up a different state of operation in the device being used, depending on the code word. It was able to select different positions for the
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guided ordnance, however, was a fully proportional control, with the "ailerons", solely under the control of an on-board gyroscope, serving merely to keep the ordnance from rolling.
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raids to collect the missile radio sets. Jammers were then installed on British ships, and the weapons basically "stopped working". The German development teams then turned to
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guided bomb, was greatly reduced by British efforts to jam their radio signals, eventually with American assistance. After initial successes, the British launched a number of
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which is activated. The relay activates a function in the application corresponding to the transmitters button. This could be to engage an electrical directional motor in an
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The first general use of radio control systems in models started in the early 1950s with single-channel self-built equipment; commercial equipment came later. The advent of
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As the electronics revolution took off, single-signal channel circuit design became redundant, and instead radios provided proportionally coded signal streams which a
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used a variant of the Aerial Target’s radio control system to control from ‘mother’ aircraft different types of naval vessels including a submarine.
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steam launch, was controlled using experimental radio control by its inventor, . In 1909 French inventor demonstrated what he called his "
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were replaced by similar electronic ones, and the continued miniaturization of electronics allowed more signals, referred to as
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once they realized what was going on, but the systems were not ready for deployment until the war had already moved to France.
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for vehicles, in which a small handheld radio transmitter unlocks or opens doors. Radio control is also used for control of
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UK National Archives ADM 1/8539/253 Capabilities of distantly controlled boats. Reports of trials at Dover 28 - 31 May 1918
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for use against shipping, a target otherwise both difficult and dangerous to attack. However, by the end of the war, the
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twin-axis, single joystick-equipped transmitters mounted in the deploying aircraft, and Telefunken's companion FuG 230
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Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame. Early Developments of Wireless Remote Control: The Telekino of Torres-Quevedo
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Radio control systems of this era were generally electromechanical in nature, using small metal "fingers" or "
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needing a special "code" transmitted along with the control information as PCM encoding has always required.
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Radio control was further developed during World War II, primarily by the Germans who used it in a number of
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An industrial radio remote control can either be operated by a person, or by a computer control system in a
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organizations make use of radio-controlled vehicles as well. A rapidly growing application is control of
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GB190327073 (A) ― Means or Method for Directing Mechanical Movements at or from a Distance.
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when a particular frequency was received. The relays would in turn then activate various
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receiver placed in the ordnance to be controlled during deployment and used by both the
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Radio control gear invented by John Hays Hammond, Jr. installed in the battleship USS
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Some of the most outstanding examples of remote radio control of a vehicle are the
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from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km.
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H. R. Everett, Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II, MIT Press - 2015, page 87
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are used for such purposes as inspections, and special vehicles for disarming of
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FR327218A Système dit telekine pour commander à distance un mouvement mécanique.
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gunnery firing practice. The "Queen Bee" was superseded by the similarly named
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systems greatly simplified radio control. The electromechanical systems using
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These systems were widely used until the 1960s, when the increasing use of
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http://www.rcmodelswiz.co.uk/users-basic-guide-to-radio-control-systems
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Today radio control is used in industry for such devices as overhead
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frequencies each of which would operate one of a number of different
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and fielded at least two teletank battalions at the beginning of the
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Use of radio signals to remotely control a device, vehicle or drone
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guided free-fall ordnance, however, proved useful in both the
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independently, and also to act over other mechanisms such an
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that executed commands transmitted by electromagnetic waves.
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filled with explosives to attack enemy shipping from 1944.
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In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled scale boat.
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The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
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a device. Examples of simple radio control systems are
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RC Models Wiz: Basic Guide to Radio Control Systems.
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introduced a radio based control system called the "
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Index

Radio controlled

MQ-1 Predator

Quadcopter
control signals
radio
remotely operate
garage door openers
keyless entry systems
model vehicles
radio transmitter
Industrial
military
scientific research
unmanned aerial vehicles
Werner von Siemens

Thames river
Madison Square Garden
Nikola Tesla
coherer

robot
Leonardo Torres Quevedo
Paris Academy of Sciences
Astra-Torres airship
code words
telegraph key
steering engine

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