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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Trohak, Attila
• Benotsmane, Rabab
• Cservenák, Ákos
• Jármai, Károly

Titel

Case Study of a Computer-Controlled RC Car Based on RF Wireless Communication

Ist Teil von

• Vehicle and Automotive Engineering 4, p.11-23

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At the industrial level, great progress has been achieved since the deployment of communication systems. These technologies have succeeded in recent decades, allowing the emergence of growing user needs in terms of accessibility, speed, amount of data and energy consumption. Thanks to communication systems, the intelligence embedded in objects could ensure their connectivity and respond to a need for control or monitoring. The main aim is not only to improve user connectivity but also to connect billions of objects between them. These connected objects are physical elements, autonomous electronic/digital devices, capable of communicating with each other, thus enabling a revolution in technology that brings more ambitious innovations in different areas of application such as medicine, industry, environment or security. Since the appearance of the Industry 4.0 concept, wireless communication became a significant tool to shift to this paradigm, where the machines and robots started to be controlled remotely. Until now, wireless digital data transmissions are based mainly on the modulation of electromagnetic waves (in a very wide range of frequencies and according to various methods). For example, in the industry, we can directly transmit data by radio waves using a radio modem in association with an adequate communication protocol or in association with certain network technology, which adapts to it. Among these different possibilities, we can distinguish the WiFi and ZigBee technologies, all the technologies used by the cellular networks of mobile telephony, and technologies exploited to communicate with the satellites. We can also consider RFID technology (Radio-Frequency IDentification) which is essentially used as a proximity interface for the purpose of identification and traceability. Apart from industrial applications, we can find Bluetooth networks, the radio local loop (BLR), Wimax and WUSB (Wireless USB). This paper presents a case study on the RF communication of remote-control toy vehicles. The paper will be divided into three parts. The first part highlights a literature review of RF communications and their use in the remote control. The second part mainly describes our measurement system and the used vehicles. Finally, we will show the results of our measurements and show the direction to substitute the remote controllers of the vehicles for building a centralized control for multiple vehicles.