119 results about "Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast" patented technology

The surveillance system provides a means to augment Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) with “look alike ADS-B” or “pseudo ADS-B” surveillance transmissions for aircraft which may not be ADS-B equipped. The system uses ground based surveillance to determine the position of aircraft not equipped with ADS-B, then broadcasts the identification/positional information over the ADS-B data link. ADS-B equipped aircraft broadcast their own position over the ADS-B data link. The system enables aircraft equipped with ADS-B and Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI) to obtain surveillance information on all aircraft whether or not the proximate aircraft are equipped with ADS-B.

An airspace risk mitigation system includes a plurality of airspace input sources, an airspace data fusion and sensor coordination system, a communications link, and a risk mitigation support system. The airspace input sources includes a radar for generating radar data for an airspace, and an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receiver for generating additional data for the airspace. The airspace data fusion and sensor coordination system is configured to receive airspace data from the plurality of airspace input sources, correlating airspace data with new or known objects in the airspace, fusing airspace data into a common airspace data set, and generating target and system status information. The risk mitigation support system is configured to calculate a risk associated with aircraft operation in the airspace as a function of the target and system status information.

A system and method are provided for employing local, opportunistic Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) information to augment other source “knowledge” of local aircraft position information for improving situational awareness in areas lacking ADS-B coverage provided by other aircraft control agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), other Civil Aviation Authorities (CAAs), and/or other Air Traffic Control (ATC) entities. Locally-received, e.g., in a vicinity of a UAV or sUAS, ADS-B positional information is received by a UAV, sUAS or associated ground control station and integrated on a display component of the ground control station, e.g., a pilot display, for the UAV or sUAS. Received positional information is forwarded to other interested users/systems, including those associated with agencies or entities in overall tactical, operational or surveillance control of a particular area of operations, as appropriate as an integrated situational awareness map display picture.

The invention discloses a communication navigation monitoring system based on a multi-mode data link. The communication navigation monitoring system based on the multi-mode data link comprises an airborne system, a Beidou commanding terminal, an ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) ground station, a ground MC (mobile communication) base station and a ground data processing center, wherein a GNSS (global navigation satellite system) module is used for collecting positioning information in the airborne system, and data interaction is carried out between the GNSS module and a ground Beidou sending and receiving terminal via a satellite link; an airborne ADS-B module is used for sending and receiving ADS-B information; an MC data link is established by an airborne MC module; an airborne data processing module is used for carrying out link judgment and switching; in the ground data processing center, a data link management and control module is in charge of link selection; the link information is firstly pre-processed by a receiving data pre-processing module and is then processed by a data fusion module to be stored into a target state database module. According to the communication navigation monitoring system based on the multi-mode data link, which is disclosed by the invention, the modular design is adopted, the communication navigation monitoring system has the expandability, data link judgment and switching can be carried out in real time, and therefore operation cost is reduced.

The present invention proposes an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) architecture and process, in which priority aircraft and ADS-B IN and radar traffic information are included in the transmission of data through the telemetry communications to a remote ground control station. The present invention further proposes methods for displaying general aviation traffic information in three and/or four dimension trajectories using an industry standard Earth browser for increased situation awareness and enhanced visual acquisition of traffic for conflict detection. The present invention enable the applications of enhanced visual acquisition of traffic, traffic alerts, and en-route and terminal surveillance used to augment pilot situational awareness through ADS-B IN display and information in three or four dimensions for self-separation awareness.

An aircraft taxiing system is provided, comprising a flight control system, an electric taxi system having controls, a flight management system (FMS), at least one data input source coupled to the FMS, and a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS). The FMS is programmed with instructions to calculate guidance speed and heading commands, augment the guidance commands to avoid runway incursions, and transmit the guidance commands to the flight control system. The TCAS is programmed with instructions to receive Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data from ground traffic, generate collision avoidance alerts; and transmit the collision avoidance alerts to the flight control system. The flight control system is programmed with instructions to receive guidance commands from the FMS, receive the traffic collision avoidance alerts from the TCAS, and compute the steering commands, and transmit the commands to the electric taxi system to taxi the aircraft along a calculated taxi route.

The present invention relates to a lightweight beacon system, affixable, for example, to UAS, aircraft without electrical systems, airport surface vehicles, skydivers, gliders, and/or balloons. The lightweight beacon system uses a small, low-powered, portable radio beacon to broadcast the location of the aircraft, vehicle, or person to which the beacon system is attached. The lightweight beacon system is compatible with the FAA's Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) service, thereby providing a means for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), aircraft without electrical systems, airport surface vehicles, or persons to be observable to other general aviation aircraft operating in their proximity.

A system and method are provided to support accommodating safe integration of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUASs) into the National Airspace Structure in the United States and to augment previously untracked aircraft positions by opportunistically acquiring their position information and forwarding this information to other systems for display. The disclosed schemes integrate automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) capabilities in sUASs by providing an ADS-B receiver on the small unmanned aircraft or in association with a ground-based sUAS control and communication workstation. Processing of the ADS-B information is integrated with processing of acquired information on sUAS aerial platform operations. Processed integrated information is displayed locally on the workstation and transmitted to other facilities to be remotely displayed. Acquired position information for the sUAS aerial platform and manned aerial vehicles in a vicinity of the sUAS aerial platform are converted to formats commonly used by air traffic control systems.

A communications system including an automated dependant surveillance-broadcast system and a global positioning system integrated into a single unit. A radio frequency receiver receives analog automated dependent surveillance-broadcast information at a selected transmission frequency and converts that information into digital form. A global positioning system receiver receives global positioning information including timing information. A processing subsystem decodes the digitized automated dependent surveillance-broadcast information in response to the timing information received by the global positioning system receiver.

Cooperating mobiles (ground vehicles, aircraft) are located and identified by Multilateration and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) techniques using the frequency band and the format of the Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) signals in high traffic situations. Standard messages, transmitted by the mobile on the downlink channel, i.e. to a set of fixed receiving stations, and including the identification code, permit the location of the mobile by multiple time measurements (Multilateration) from a subset of the set of fixed receiving stations; when the message contains the position (GPS and, later, Galileo datum) the mobile may be located with the ADS-B when in view even of a few stations or of a single station. In order to overcome the problem that arises with high traffic, i.e. the superimposition of signals, called garbling.

An improved system and methods for correlating an interrogation-based air traffic surveillance intruder, such as an Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) intruder, and a GPS-based air traffic surveillance target, such as an Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) target to minimize or eliminate the display of two symbols for the same intruder/target on the CDTI of an aircraft. The method comprises the steps of receiving ADS-B data at a processing unit and calculating select component deltas for the ADS-B data versus an entry in a TCAS intruder file. Progressive weights are assigned to the deltas and the progressive weights are summed, resulting in a total confidence score. Total confidence scores of ADS-B target and TCAS intruder pairs are compared to determine correlation between the ADS-B target and the TCAS intruders.

The invention discloses an ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance broadcast) and radar combined system error estimation method, which belongs to the technical field of ADS and radar information fusion. At present, when the ADS-B equipment is used for radar calibration, the existing serious problem is that the time when the ADS-B emission equipment emits data information cannot be obtained, and no time alignment exists for the radar measuring data and the ADS-B data, so that the following error calibration is inaccurate, while all the conventional algorithms evade the problem. Aiming to effectively solve the problems of time alignment and error estimation of the radar system in the practical application, the method provided by the invention has the following steps of defining a novel ADS-B time system error based on the receiving time of the ADS-B, building the ADS-B and radar system error combined estimation model, and finally solving through the Least Squares algorithm, so that the radar can be accurately calibrated through the ADS-B.

The invention relates to a method for detecting an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) false target, which belongs to a method for measuring a target location by an air traffic management system so as to judge whether a target is the false target or not and comprises the following steps: reading target representation and four-dimensional location (time, longitude and latitude, height) information output by an ADS-B system by a data processing center firstly, and respectively sending to a plurality of direction-finding base stations; firstly enabling a directional antenna to point to an orientation in which the target is located by the servo devices of all the direction-finding base stations, then, receiving target information from the direction by using an ADS-B receiving machine according to the synchronizing signal of the data processing center, and sending the target information back to the data processing center; and analyzing the results of all the direction-finding base stations by the data processing center, if more than two direction-finding base stations are capable of respectively receiving the target information, showing that the target is real; and if the target information is received by only one station or no station, showing that the target is false. In the method for detecting the ADS-B false target, a multi-station direction-finding system is formed, thereby, the false target can be accurately and effectively judged, the hidden danger is eliminated, and the air traffic safety is guaranteed.

The invention relates to an ECC certificate-based ADS-B data authentication method and belongs to a method for authenticating airborne data in an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast system in the field of aviation. The method comprises the following steps of: adding a GPS timestamp into original ADS-B sending data to form an ADS-B message, and generating a signature by using an ECC private key; adding signature data into the ADS-B message, encapsulating the signature data into final ADS-B downlink data, and sending the final ADS-B downlink data through an ADS-B communication channel; and dividing ADS-B output data received by a ground station and other airplanes into two parts, wherein one part is ADS-B initial load and GPS time-scale data, and the latter is compared with the current GPS data so as to detect replay attack; and the other part is the signature data. The method can reduce the complexity of distribution and management of the private key, and resists data playback attack to ADS-B systems.