Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Marine vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-25
2011-01-25
Avila, Stephen (Department: 3617)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Marine vehicle
C440S001000, C440S084000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07877174
ABSTRACT:
An automatic speed control system that provides desired watercraft velocity over land. The coupled algorithms correct engine speed and torque using inertia based measurements, GPS, and tachometer measurements, and the corrections are augmented and enhanced by velocity/speed and torque/speed relationships that are dynamically and adaptively programmed with real-time data collected during replicated operations of the watercraft in specified conditions.
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Grogan Joseph
Guglielmo Kennon H.
Shouse Kenneth R.
Walser Michael W.
Avila Stephen
Econtrols, Inc.
Nash William B.
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