Performance of real-time remote control systems in the ISM band

In remote control applications, a user controls a number of inputs which wirelessly trigger a real-time proportional movement in the controlled object. Such applications are generally referred to as Radio Control (RC) applications. Imperfections in the wireless channel (noise and interference) create a random delay (latency) in the response of the radio control system. A lag occurs when this system latency exceeds a real-time threshold. The System Lag Occurrence Probability (SLOP) is the probability of lag occurrence used to characterize performance of real-time radio control applications. This thesis derives SLOP for a frequency hopping radio control system.;Advanced RC applications use the license-free ISM band for wireless access. Single-chip Commercial-Off-The-Shelf wireless transceivers are used in practice to implement radio control systems operating in the ISM band. ISM transceivers can be classified into five generations depending on the amount of silicon integration available in the transceiver. ISM transceivers offer a variety of techniques to battle noise and interference in the ISM band. Due to hardware limitations found in ISM transceivers, frequency hopping is found to be the only available interference-resistance technique which enables the maximization of interference-resistance in the band.;There are two modes of operation in a frequency hopping system: acquisition and tracking. This thesis studies the effect of using uniform serial acquisition and N-state lock detector tracking on the system latency of a radio control system.