543 results about "Flight operations" patented technology

A system is provided comprising a control station for remotely controlling unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAV”). The control station is configured to display vehicle status data received from each UAV, including displaying a location of each UAV in a single interface. Through the single interface, the control station may receive a control command input associated with one of the UAVs. The control station may transmit the received control command, or a command derived therefrom, to the respective UAV. The single interface may provide for a user to view and control flight operation of each of the UAVs independently through the single interface.

A framework for maintenance, repair and overhaul business management includes a first layer identifying business areas in an MRO business, a second layer identifying one or more processes within each business area and a third layer identifying one or more sub-processes within each process wherein the business area include flight operations management, maintenance execution, maintenance management, engineering and maintenance support, material management, product development, enterprise management, strategic management, and demand generation.

The invention relates to a line navigation amphibious power circuit comprehensive maintenance robot and a circuit maintenance method thereof. The line navigation amphibious power circuit comprehensive maintenance robot comprises a flight subsystem, an online subsystem and an operation subsystem, wherein when the robot is in a flight operation mode, the flight subsystem is used for executing far-distance or short-distance cruising of the power circuit; when the robot is in an online operation mode, the online subsystem is used for realizing the moving of the robot on the power circuit; and when the robot is in the online operation mode, the operation subsystem is used for maintaining the power circuit. According to the scheme, high stability, easy operability and controllability and flexibility of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle technique are utilized, and the specificity and intelligence of online robot technique are also utilized; and by organic combination of the two techniques, the limitation of each technique is overcome, and the superiority of the two techniques in comprehensive maintenance of strong and smart grid is exerted to a maximum extent.

A system and method are disclosed for enhancing the visibility and ensuring the correctness of terrain and navigation information on aircraft displays, such as, for example, continuous, three-dimensional perspective view aircraft displays conformal to the visual environment. More specifically, an aircraft display system is disclosed that includes a processing unit, a navigation system, a database for storing high resolution terrain data, a graphics display generator, and a visual display. One or more independent, higher precision databases with localized position data, such as navigation data or position data is onboard. Also, one or more onboard vision sensor systems associated with the navigation system provides real-time spatial position data for display, and one or more data links is available to receive precision spatial position data from ground-based stations. Essentially, before terrain and navigational objects (e.g., runways) are displayed, a real-time correction and augmentation of the terrain data is performed for those regions that are relevant and / or critical to flight operations, in order to ensure that the correct terrain data is displayed with the highest possible integrity. These corrections and augmentations performed are based upon higher precision, but localized onboard data, such as navigational object data, sensor data, or up-linked data from ground stations. Whenever discrepancies exist, terrain data having a lower integrity can be corrected in real-time using data from a source having higher integrity data. A predictive data loading approach is used, which substantially reduces computational workload and thus enables the processing unit to perform such augmentation and correction operations in real-time.

A device for programming industry standard autopilots by unskilled pilots. The effect of the invention is such that when the invention is employed in a flying body comprising an industry standard autopilot with a digital flight control system, the invention provides for the safe operation of any aircraft by an unskilled pilot. The device additionally affords skilled pilots a more rapid and simplified means of programming autopilots while in flight thus reducing a skilled pilot's cockpit workload for all aircraft flight and directional steering, way points, and aircraft flight functions reducing the possibility of pilot error so as to effect safer flight operations of an aircraft by affording a skilled pilot to direct aircraft steering and function while under continuous autopilot control.

A system for and a method of synchronous acquisition of pulsed source light performs monitoring of aircraft flight operation. Diode sources of illumination (18, 108, 208) are pulsed (16, 106, 206) at one-half the video frame rate of an imaging camera (36, 136, 236). Alternate frames view the world-scene with lights of interest pulsed on, and then off, respectively. Video differencing (34, 134, 234) eliminates the background scene, as well as all lights not of interest. Suitable threshholding over a resulting array of camera pixel-differences acquires the desired lights and represents them as point symbology on a display (40, 140, 240). In an enhanced vision landing system embodiment, the desired lights (symbols) overlay or are fused on a thermal image of the scene; alternatively, the symbols overlay a visible scene (TV) image.

A road / air vehicle is able to quickly and easily convert between two configurations, air configuration and road configuration, to facilitate practical operation as both an aircraft and as an automobile. In air configuration the craft includes two laterally symmetrically flight surfaces; a smaller forward canard wing, generally horizontally disposed and a larger rearward main wing generally horizontally disposed with fin surfaces, generally vertically disposed, at each tip. Control surfaces on the main wing, the canard wing and the tip fins severally provide roll control, pitch control and yaw control in flight. The wheels / undercarriage are of a laterally symmetrical rectangular pattern, with the lateral distance between the two forward wheels and the two rearward wheels being similar. The forward wheels are steerable for ground operations. A suitable powerplant drives the rear wheels for ground operations. A second suitable powerplant provides direct atmospheric thrust for flight operations. In road configuration all flight surfaces and avionics sensors are folded and stored inside compartments within the body of the craft. Controls to facilitate both ground and flight operations are available for a single operator to perform the functions of both driver in road configuration and pilot in air configuration.

The invention provides an unmanned plane route planning and remote synchronous control method, and relates to the field of unmanned plane control. The method provided by the invention can be wieldy applied to intelligent mobile equipment including mobile phones and panel personal computers. A system can be divided into two major parts, wherein an unmanned plane serves as an actuating end for measuring attitude angle, the longitude and latitude and the height information of an airframe, and sending the information to the intelligent mobile equipment through a wireless data transmission module or a Wi-Fi module, and synchronously receiving the information returned via the intelligent mobile equipment, and executing relevant flight operation. The intelligent mobile equipment can be inclined and rotated to acquire the angle data output via a gyroscope and an accelerometer on the equipment, thus, the unmanned plane can perform the same action as the equipment; and the intelligent mobile equipment has he functions of receiving and displaying data, and returning the information to the unmanned plane through an external wireless data transmission module or the Wi-Fi based on the command and flight information set on a touch screen. With the adoption of the method provided by the invention, the flexibility of an unmanned plane system can be improved; and the unmanned plane system can be simply operated just like playing a game.

A flight information communication system has a plurality of RF direct sequence spread spectrum ground data links that link respective aircraft-resident subsystems, in each of which a copy of its flight performance data is stored, with airport-located subsystems. The airport-located subsystems are coupled by way communication paths, such as land line telephone links, to a remote flight operations control center. At the flight operations control center, flight performance data downlinked from plural aircraft parked at different airports is analyzed. In addition, the flight control center may be employed to direct the uploading of in-flight data files, such as audio, video and navigation files from the airport-located subsystems to the aircraft.

An aircraft synthetic vision system (100) is provided for increasing data input to a pilot (109) during approach and landing flight operations, and includes a runway assistance landing system (114) and a plurality of databases (106, 108, 110, 112) which may include, for example, a terrain database (106), an obstacle database (112); and a validated runway database (110). The processor (104) detects the likelihood of an error in determining the altitude from at least one of the runway assistance landing system (114), the plurality of databases (106, 108, 110, 112), and identifies the error. The processor (104) further determines augmented coordinates, and a processor (104) generates symbology commands to a first display (116) for displaying a runway environment in response to data provided to the processor (104) from each of the runway assistance landing system (114), the plurality of databases (106, 108, 110, 112), and the processor (104).

A method for detecting a vehicle comprising: providing a multi-channel scannerless full-waveform lidar system operating in pulsed Time-Of-Flight operation oriented towards a surface of the roadway to cover the detection zone; providing at least one initialization parameter; emitting pulses at an emission frequency; receiving reflections of the pulses from the detection zone; and acquiring and digitalizing a series of individual complete traces at each channel of system; identifying at least one detection in at least one of the traces; obtaining a height and an intensity for the detection; determining a nature of the detection to be one of an environmental particle detection, a candidate object detection and a roadway surface detection; if the nature of the detection is the candidate object detection, detecting a presence of a vehicle in the detection zone.

An in-space spacecraft servicing system (10) includes a servicing spacecraft (22) and a propellant module (24). The servicing spacecraft includes a client servicing system (136), as well as navigation avionics (108) for independent flight operation and a servicing propellant tank (170). The propellant module moves the servicing module from an upper stage drop off location and releases it in proximity to a client spacecraft (16) for a servicing mission. It has a propellant tank (172) with capacity for multiple missions and is used to refill the servicing spacecraft's propellant tanks between missions. Either or both the servicing spacecraft and the propellant module may have navigation avionics. The servicing spacecraft also has a universal docking adaptor (70) for different client spacecraft, and can convert a client spacecraft from non-cooperative to cooperative.

The invention is directed toward a system and method for assigning mission directives to one or more unmanned vehicles and transferring mission directives from one unmanned aerial vehicle to a second unmanned aerial vehicle. The method comprises providing a set of instructions to a first unmanned aerial vehicle, storing the set of instructions on a nonvolatile memory component of the first unmanned aerial vehicle, executing one or more tasks of the set of instructions by the first unmanned aerial vehicle, transferring a set of instructions comprising unexecuted tasks from the first unmanned aerial vehicle to a second unmanned aerial vehicle, and storing the set of instructions on a nonvolatile memory component of the second unmanned aerial vehicle. The invention is further directed toward a method of determining a flight path for one or more unmanned aerial vehicles stationed at charging stations.

A combination powered parachute and motorcycle modifies an initially conventional motorcycle with the addition of various flight components to provide sustained flight for the machine. A peripheral and overhead safety structure is installed upon the motorcycle, with a second flight engine, propeller, folding propeller guard, and fuel system also installed. The flight engine and all of its systems are completely independent of the conventional motorcycle engine used for surface propulsion. A set of laterally disposed stabilizer wheels is also provided for transition from ground to flight and from flight to ground operation. Lift is provided by a folding parafoil device of either the ram air inflated or partially pneumatically inflated type. For flight operations, the lateral wheels are lowered and extended, the folding propeller guard is extended, and the parafoil is deployed behind the motorcycle, with the parafoil lifting conventionally upon attaining flight speed.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for better conveying information to a pilot and / or other members of a flight crew present on the flight deck of an aircraft. Embodiments of the invention are of particular use in the briefings that precede various phases of the flight operations of an aircraft (such as start-up of the engines, take-off, ascent to cruise altitude, descent from cruise altitude and landing). The system and method provide a briefing output relevant to the particular phases of a flight in both of a visual form and an audio form, with the briefing output including data of most relevance to the particular flight phase.

A jet engine air intake guard takes the circumstance into consideration to protect a jet-engine air intake structure from being damaged by birds or any other foreign objects, including meteoritic debris and bullets during flight operations, said structure comprising a deflector, a steep dome-shaped device with sharply pointed forepart, a secondary device which is carefully designed to insert into the base component, in order to deflect birds or any foreign objects out of the air stream and to provide an adequate air intake to the jet-engine during use. According to the invention, the protective device also comprises a base component put over the air intake cowl being provided with stiffening means completely cover the air intake cowl to hold the protective device firmly while operating is being disclosed in the present application.

A robust amphibious air vehicle incorporates a fuselage with buoyant stabilizers and wings extending from the fuselage. At least one lift fan is mounted in the fuselage. Movable propulsion units carried by the wings are rotatable through a range of angles adapted for vertical and horizontal flight operations.

The invention relates to flight management system and method thereof based on multi-task parallel processing. The system comprises an electronic flight instrument system display unit, a multifunctional control display unit, a flight management system processing unit and a display unit with a control button, wherein the multifunctional control display unit is used for maintaining existing functions of formulating and executing a flight plan; and the flight management system processing unit is connected with the multifunction control display unit and used for copying the formulated flight plan and carrying out assessment and dynamic modification on the flight plan. The invention converts the traditional signal processing scheme into a parallel processing scheme: one processing scheme is used for maintaining the traditional functions of formulating and executing the flight plan, and the other processing scheme is used for providing the dynamic modification and assessment functions; and flight personnel can effectively prepare and scientifically assess the change basis by dynamically modifying an assessment scheme, therefore, the invention can satisfy the changeful practical needs and improve the flight safety and the flight operation effectiveness.

A flying vehicle having a pair of counter rotating propeller blades which provide lift for the vehicle when the vehicle is in a flight mode of operation. The counter rotating blades have in flight adjustable pitch and are connected to a control and steering system in the cockpit of the vehicle. A gas turbine engine located in the aft section of the vehicle is connected through a drive shaft and transmission to the counter rotating propeller blades When the vehicle transitions to the flight mode, the user has aircraft controls available in the cockpit to make the transitions from a driver to a pilot in a short time period. Yaw pedals located on the floor board of the cockpit as well as a pitch control handle and the steering wheel allow the user to steer and control the altitude of the vehicle when the vehicle is in the flight mode.

A vehicle seat system, especially for aircraft, has seat components such as a backrest (5) and a seat part (3) bordered at least on one side by a console (9) forming the arm rest. An arm-like operating part (13) extends at least partially above the plane of the head of the seat occupant (45), and has operating elements which are used at least in part to enhance comfort and / or suitable within the context of operation, especially flight operation, for this purpose. Because the arm-like operating part (13) forms a widening of the console (9) and extends forward proceeding from the area of the backrest (5) above the console (9) in an extension, and because the arm-like operating part (13) is configured as a rigid arched support, an aesthetically pleasing solution is obtained requiring little installation space, saving weight and providing a multifunction solution.

The invention discloses a collaborative multi-objective optimal allocation method for airway time slot resources. The method includes the steps that an airway time slot resource collaborative decision-making information platform is established, planned airway and temporary airway information in a flow-limited airspace and available time slot information and flight operation information of a planned airway downstream airspace unit are acquired, a collaborative airway time slot allocation algorithm is made, objective functions and constraint conditions meeting the requirement for validity are established with the minimum total delay loss of all flights, the minimum total number of turning points of all the flights and the minimum average delay time of passengers as objectives respectively, a multi-objective optimization model for collaborative airway time slot resource allocation is established, a non-inferior solution set is obtained by solving the model, an airway time slot resource allocation strategy set is formed, and airway time slot resource allocation strategies are issued through the airway time slot resource collaborative decision-making information platform.