---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000001427"
title: "Truck-tablet interface"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:05:46.411027Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001427"
categories:
  - "lifting-positioning-manipulation/lift-tables-and-positioners"
keywords:
  - "b66f9/07581"
  - "h04l67/10"
  - "h04l67/125"
  - "b60r16/023"
  - "g05d1/0016"
  - "g05d1/0022"
---

# Truck-tablet interface

## Abstract

A materials handling vehicle comprises a distributed processor system including a vehicle network that facilitates an exchange of information with vehicle electronic components, and a distributed multi-processor vehicle control architecture. The distributed multi-processor vehicle control architecture includes an embedded information core having a core processor communicably coupled to the vehicle network, and a tablet having a tablet processor, where the tablet is communicably couplable to, and detachable from the distributed multi-processor vehicle control architecture. When the tablet is detached from the distributed multi-processor vehicle control architecture, the core processor functions as a primary processor that communicates with vehicle electronic components by communicating therewith across the vehicle network. When the tablet is communicably attached to the distributed multi-processor vehicle control architecture, the tablet processor functions as the primary processor, and the core processor functions as a subordinate processor.