Method and system for exclusively assigning a vehicle duty position in a computerized vehicle simulator

US5444624A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• General Dynamics Land Systems · US

Inventors

• Robert M. Wilkinson · Romeo, US
• Ann L. Davies · Lake Orion, US
• Henry Clarence Davies · Lake Orion, US
• Barbara A. Osbon · Auburn Hills, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 1992
• Grant date: Aug 22, 1995
• Expiry date: Dec 29, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B19/167
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and system is disclosed for using a computer system to simulate a vehicle including a plurality of vehicle duty positions having corresponding display panels. The vehicle duty positions are linked together to form at least one simulated vehicle. The method and system for assigning vehicle duty positions to simulated vehicles incorporates contention resolution techniques which ensure exclusive assignments. Vehicle duty positions assigned to a common simulated vehicle may communicate with one another using the corresponding display panels.