The present invention replaces the use of a pilot information display method and instead relies upon an automated three dimensional aircraft tracking system using only aircraft tracking data supplied by internal spherical coverage dual mode sensor system. Separation is accurately predicted and minimum flight path separation (from all nearby aircraft) is automatically assured by signals to the aircraft flight control system without action or intervention by the pilot. When predicted separation is less than minimum separation for the host aircraft, flight control is temporarily removed from the pilot until the automated system redirects the flight path to enable the predicted separation to exceed the minimum separation for the host aircraft. When on-board sensor system predicts separation greater than required minimum, then flight control is returned to the pilot.
Automatic aircraft separation assurance
23.03.2017
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS / G01C Messen von Entfernungen, Höhen, Neigungen oder Richtungen , MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen |
Aircraft separation assurance avionics
AIAA | 1981
|Aircraft Collision Avoidance and Separation Assurance
SAE Technical Papers | 1980
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