33 results about "Mission operations" patented technology

Many different types of systems are utilized or tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of unmanned vehicles, or drones, that can be operated and / or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more unmanned vehicles can be integrated with a dedicated marine electronic device of a marine vessel for autonomous control and operation. Additionally or alternatively, the unmanned vehicle can be manually remote operated during use in the marine environment. Such unmanned vehicles can be utilized in many different marine environment systems or tasks, including, for example, navigation, sonar, radar, search and rescue, video streaming, alert functionality, among many others. However, as contemplated by the present invention, the marine environment provides many unique challenges that may be accounted for with operation and control of an unmanned vehicle.

An autonomous navigation system for an orbital platform incorporating a global positioning system based navigation device optimized for low-Earth orbit and medium-Earth orbit applications including a 12 channel, GPS tracking application-specific integrated circuit (15) operating in concert with a computer system (90) implementing an extended Kalman filter and orbit propagator which autonomously generates estimates of position, velocity and time to enable planning, prediction and execution of event-based commanding of mission operations.

Many different types of systems are utilized or tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of unmanned vehicles, or drones, that can be operated and / or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more unmanned vehicles can be integrated with a dedicated marine electronic device of a marine vessel for autonomous control and operation. Additionally or alternatively, the unmanned vehicle can be manually remote operated during use in the marine environment. Such unmanned vehicles can be utilized in many different marine environment systems or tasks, including, for example, navigation, sonar, radar, search and rescue, video streaming, alert functionality, among many others. However, as contemplated by the present invention, the marine environment provides many unique challenges that may be accounted for with operation and control of an unmanned vehicle.

The invention relates to the field of power system simulation training, and particularly relates to a substation safety case type simulation training method based on a virtual reality technology. The method comprises the following steps: 1, collecting case materials; 2, selecting typical safety accident cases; 3, forming a typical case table; 4, teasing the cases to obtain key events and key steps for key manufacturing; 5, forming a case script; 6, generating a case data file using a case making tool; and 7, performing immersed application interaction of the substation safety accident cases. By using the method, a trainee can carry out effective interaction and task operation with a virtual imaged device or environment by directly using limb actions, experience actual production accidents and feel hazards in various operating environments and consequences caused by non-standard operation, so that the accident analysis and handling abilities are improved.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods to integrate and manage a computer network operations (CNO) infrastructure. A framework may include CNO applications that are used to find a target computer system, breach the target, extract data therefrom and analyze the data. A CNO organization in a secure network can use the framework to maintain, manage and monitor CNO applications in an unsecured network without compromising security from counter-attacks. The framework remains engaged with targeted computer systems during routine maintenance, management and monitoring processes to mitigate loss of mission opportunities. The framework utilizes virtual instances to provision CNO capabilities for missions operations that couple the secure and unsecured networks in an asynchronous manner while allowing bidirectional communications between the framework and computers on their respective network. Consequently, the framework secures a CNO infrastructure while mitigating loss mission opportunities and vulnerabilities from adversaries.

The invention relates to a multi-DSP (Digital Signal Processor) platform based distributed type real-time multiple task operating system and belongs to the field of an embedded operation system. The system is characterized by being a distributed type real-time operating system which is capable of performing real-time scheduling on multiple embedded processing modules on each DSP processor of the multi-DSP platform. The system is provided with a storage management module, a task communication module and a task scheduling module, wherein the storage management module is used for storing and managing each input task and each output task; the task communication module is used for internally and externally communicating with a main control computer or the embedded task scheduling module and inputting a to-be-processed task or outputting a processed task; the task scheduling module is used for dynamically dividing the to-be-processed task from the task communication module into a waiting state task, a ready state task and an output state task according to the real-time state of the task; and the task is scanned in turn according to a task processing process, so as to finish a conversion process of waiting-ready and ready-outputting task real-time state. The system provided by the invention can be used for simultaneously performing real-time scheduling on each task module, ensuring the finishing of the processing task and outputting at each processing node of the multi-DSP platform.

The invention relates to a storage yard management method of an automatic dock, which can be applied to the automatic dock comprising a low bridge system. The method comprises the following steps of: providing a corresponding task operation interface according to a task type selected by a user, wherein the task type includes one of boxing, unboxing, box tidying and transfer; receiving plans submitted by the user for the operation on the task operation interface, wherein the operation includes operation objects concerning task selection; and generating one or more corresponding tasks according to the plan, wherein objects on which the plans are arranged and the objects on which the plans cannot be arranged because of the position limitation are eliminated. The information of the tasks includes the task type, the task initial positions, the task destination positions, the tasks and the container numbers.

The invention provides an unmanned water vehicle. The unmanned water vehicle comprises a control unit which is arranged in a control cabinet of the vehicle and is used for setting and assigning task operation according to a remote order and sending a sailing control signal to a power system of the vehicle for safe unmanned driving according to the remote order or automatically. The control unit further comprises a communication module, a sailing control module and a posture adjustment module. The communication module is configured to be used for communicating with a manipulation center so as to receive the remote order or return the current sailing state and sailing conditions of the vehicle to the manipulation center. The sailing control module is configured to make a route plan according to the remote order and generate sailing control signals in real time under the plan so as to make the vehicle reach the destination. The posture adjustment module is configured to adjust the static posture during task performing according to detected current posture information of the vehicle.

Based on multitasking operating system, the method uses multitask to manage multilink communication. Communication of each link is managed by independent task. Association is not setup between tasks of managing communication of link. Interface between link management and application task in through data buffer. Based on multitask system, and using standard interface of operation system, the method is realized through complete software manner. The invention is able to match redundancy in multiple isomorphic or isomerous links without need of adding any input / output unit etc hardware. Features are: high portability, flexible configuration, and high practicability.

A computer system includes software running on a hardware platform. The hardware platform provides a platform manager having an user interface that is independent of that for a mission operating system running on said platform. The platform manager issues platform requests for power-setting adjustments. The software includes a mission operating system with a power controller incorporated in or running on the mission operating system. The power controller adjusts power settings for hardware devices at least in part as a function of the platform requests.

The invention discloses an airborne computer software system for a small unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising an airborne computer, the airborne computer is connected to an airborne data acquisition system, a flight control system, a navigation system and a storage system through an RS‑232 interface; The software system of the airborne computer is divided into driver layer, data processing layer, control layer and application layer; adopting the method of layered design, through the layer division and task division of functional modules, the embedded system with high real-time and high reliability Based on the real-time multi-task operating system, the multi-task concurrency design is completed, and the highly scalable software system architecture is determined. The introduction of the data-centered system inter-process communication method increases the reliability and flexibility of the data communication of the software system, enhances the real-time performance of the flight control system to collect analog data, reduces the burden on the flight control computer CPU, and improves the The overall parallel processing capability of the flight control system.

Video gaming systems for wagering are usually required to interact through hardware I / O (Input / Output) interfaces with peripherals and other external systems. Often, the interaction includes real-time requirements which are not easily met when using preemptive multitasking operating systems, such as Microsoft's Windows. By combining various features of the operating system, it is possible to provide real-time responses while still maintaining the performance of the video game itself.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods to integrate and manage a computer network operations (CNO) infrastructure. A framework may include CNO applications that are used to find a target computer system, breach the target, extract data therefrom and analyze the data. A CNO organization in a secure network can use the framework to maintain, manage and monitor CNO applications in an unsecured network without compromising security from counter-attacks. The framework remains engaged with targeted computer systems during routine maintenance, management and monitoring processes to mitigate loss of mission opportunities. The framework utilizes virtual instances to provision CNO capabilities for missions operations that couple the secure and unsecured networks in an asynchronous manner while allowing bidirectional communications between the framework and computers on their respective network. Consequently, the framework secures a CNO infrastructure while mitigating loss mission opportunities and vulnerabilities from adversaries.

The embodiment of the invention provides a group task processing method and device, and the method comprises the steps: providing a cooperative work task for a group, and enabling the cooperative worktask to comprise work index information; Determining a task operation executed by at least one group member in the group through the client; And updating the state of the cooperative work task according to the work index information and the task operation, and sending the state of the cooperative work task to the group. In the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the group memberscan jointly complete the task, so that the Internet resources are integrated. Besides, each member in the group can timely obtain task information and can communicate with other members in real time according to the task information; The problem that members of the cooperative task cannot know the task state, progress and the like in time in the prior art is avoided, the problem of resource wastecaused by the fact that the members frequently log in the designated website to check the task state, progress and other information is avoided, and Internet resources are saved.

The invention provides an aircraft simulation system of a flight simulator. The aircraft simulation system is composed of a simulation platform and a piece of simulation software. The simulation platform is composed of a host computer and a target computer. The host computer provides a Windows Xp environment, and selects a Tornado 2.2 real-time development environment. The simulation platform adopts an embedded multi-task operating system VxWorks 5.5 as the operating system on which the aircraft simulation software relies for running. The simulation software is aircraft simulation software developed through C language and C++ mixed programming and adopts a modular structure and a multi-task and single-rate simulation mode, and the simulation cycle is 10 milliseconds. Software modules include a real-time management module, a flight performance simulation module, an aircraft system simulation module, a weapon simulation module and a network management module. The operating system of thesimulation system occupies fewer system resources and runs stably. The design and implementation of a software model are fast, and the reliability is high. The requirements of flight training and program training of pilots in full envelope can be satisfied.

A machine condition monitoring system comprising a machine condition monitoring analysis device operating on a combination of one of an Operating System (OS) or a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and an embedded web based server. The analysis device includes a communication circuit for communicating with an independent web-enabled computing device having non-RTOS operating system. The independent computing device provides web requests to the analysis device. The analysis device interprets the web requests as instruction sets and processes the requests accordingly. The analysis device obtains machine condition data from one or more deployed sensors. The analysis device returns processed data in a form of one or more web pages. The communication network can integrate an intermediary communication device, wherein the intermediary communication device introduces a capability of translating Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (HART) transmissions into other communication protocols, such as Wi-Fi.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a means of constructing an Autonomous fully-Submersible Offshore Marine Platform (ASOMP) of considerable warfighting or commercial capability which is mobile and can autonomously transport to a hazardous operating area in a low-observable reduced vulnerability manner, fully submerge to avoid the military or environmental threat hazard, hibernate until needed, perform fully submerged mobility and mission operations, surface and provide Barge and SWATH surface ship mobility and mission operations, resubmerge if the hazardous threat appears and relocate to a new operating area. Another object of the present invention is to provide a fully autonomous and submersible low-cost “lily-pad” that surfaces when called and provides a main deck platform at appropriate freeboard and seakeeping motions to function as a refueling landing zone and pier to extend the range of aircraft and marine vehicles operating in a high-threat environment.

A self-diagnostic accelerometer (SDA) field programmable gate array (FPGA) may be capable of real time or near-real time diagnostic processing to determine potential accelerometer issues during flight or other mission critical operational situations. The SDA FPGA may determine accelerometer structural health and an attachment condition using an electronics system that is smaller, more energy efficient, and more cost effective than previous diagnostic tools. Advantages of the system may include diagnosing sensors automatically, immediately, actively (i.e., confirming the fault), and consistently, without the influence of a human operator. Customizable SDA algorithms may be adjusted to the specific needs of the sensor / environment.

A project flow management method and device are provided in embodiments of that present specification. The method comprises: generating a multi-dimensional project flow management diagram including ahorizontal axis and a vertical axis based on configuration information, wherein one of the horizontal axis and the vertical axis is used for recording each project flow node in the life cycle of the project, and the other is used for recording each project personnel involved in the life cycle of the project; receiving the component management instruction triggered by the project personnel, whereinthe component management instruction is used to add, delete or change the components corresponding to the project process node and the project personnel in the project process management diagram; updating the display of the project process management diagram according to the process management instruction, and sending the related task notification to the project personnel pointed out by the component management instruction; relevant task notifications carrying the project process node information pointed to by the component management instruction and the task operation information corresponding to the component pointed to by the component management instruction, and the updated project process management diagram displaying the task operation information executed by each project personnelat each project process node.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a means of constructing an Autonomous fully-Submersible Offshore Marine Platform (ASOMP) of considerable warfighting or commercial capability which is mobile and can autonomously transport to a hazardous operating area in a low-observable reduced vulnerability manner, fully submerge to avoid the military or environmental threat hazard, hibernate until needed, perform fully submerged mobility and mission operations, surface and provide Barge and SWATH surface ship mobility and mission operations, resubmerge if the hazardous threat appears and relocate to a new operating area. Another object of the present invention is to provide a fully autonomous and submersible low-cost “lily-pad” that surfaces when called and provides a main deck platform at appropriate freeboard and seakeeping motions to function as a refueling landing zone and pier to extend the range of aircraft and marine vehicles operating in a high-threat environment.

The invention relates to a method for controlling the restitution of alert(s) and / or program(s), a related computer product and a control system. The method comprises the surveillance of the operationof one or several device(s) of a vehicle (10) and the determination of alert(s) and / or of associated reconfiguration procedure(s) to be restituted for the crew, the vehicle being capable of operatingby using at least one operational capacity (Cj). The method further comprises obtaining (58) a list of operational capacities (Cj) required by said current mission for a current mission (M); based onsaid required operational capacities (Cj), and from at least one piece of information stored in an accessible database (22), checking the restitution (60) of alert(s) and / or of system(s) reconfiguration procedure(s) by: modifying the associated level of alert(s) and / or of reconfiguration procedure(s) derived from the surveillance, and sequencing the restitution for the crew of alert(s) and / or ofprocedure(s) based on said level, and / or filtering said alert(s) and / or reconfiguration procedure(s) before restitution to the crew.

The invention provides an unmanned water vehicle. The unmanned water vehicle comprises a control unit which is arranged in a control cabinet of the vehicle and is used for setting and assigning task operation according to a remote order and sending a sailing control signal to a power system of the vehicle for safe unmanned driving according to the remote order or automatically. The control unit further comprises a communication module, a sailing control module and a posture adjustment module. The communication module is configured to be used for communicating with a manipulation center so as to receive the remote order or return the current sailing state and sailing conditions of the vehicle to the manipulation center. The sailing control module is configured to make a route plan according to the remote order and generate sailing control signals in real time under the plan so as to make the vehicle reach the destination. The posture adjustment module is configured to adjust the static posture during task performing according to detected current posture information of the vehicle.

An electrical power system has a dual battery configuration that enables sufficient power supply for a spacecraft bus and a payload module being carried by the spacecraft. During a sunlight power mode, power is drawn from a solar array of the bus to power a low-discharge payload of the spacecraft and a high-discharge payload of a payload module. During the sunlight power mode, a low rate discharge battery and a high rate discharge battery are charged by a battery charge management unit of the spacecraft bus. During an eclipse power mode, the low rate discharge battery powers the low-discharge payload of the spacecraft and the high rate discharge battery powers the high-discharge payload of the payload module. The high-rate discharge battery may also be used to power the high-rate discharge payload in the sunlight power mode to meet its high current demands to meet a flexible mission operations.

An on-orbit calibration method for the aerodynamic shape difference between satellites in a formation satellite system. Through real-time relative measurement of formation satellites by GNSS, the real-time on-board data of the required formation main star and formation auxiliary satellite are obtained, and the star position of each satellite at the current moment is determined by calculation. On-orbit calibration of the aerodynamic shape of satellites based on the difference in aerodynamic shape between satellites solves the need for quantitative identification and evaluation of the difference in aerodynamic shape between formation satellites, and further improves the quality of on-orbit mission operation of formation satellites. The whole process of the method is clear, the method is simple and reliable, and the calculation accuracy is higher.

The invention provides a pilot situational awareness level prediction system and a method based on a dynamic path model. The system and the method can realize result comparison of pilot situation awareness level prediction in a typical dynamic situation consisting of various display interfaces and task operations, have the characteristics of wide applicability, high accuracy and the like, and canprovide technical support for cockpit human factor design and pilot training strategy optimization.

The invention discloses a remote signaling processing method. The method comprises the steps that firstly, a remote signaling state is obtained and added into a remote signaling state queue; secondly, the remote signaling state queue is processed, and a remote signaling event is generated and added into a remote signaling event queue; thirdly, the remote signaling event queue is processed, and remote signaling event reporting is finished. The remote signaling function is achieved in an embedded operating system, and the expansibility feature of an original operating system is not affected; in the embedded multi-task operating system, multi-loop remote signaling processing can be achieved; high-resolution remote signaling processing can be achieved; remote signaling state scanning with the high requirement for the real-time performance is achieved in the interrupt task, and the requirement for high remote signaling resolution can be achieved; remote signaling processing with the general requirement for the real-time performance is achieved in the task. Remote signaling processing of multiple loops (more than 24 loops) can be achieved.

A method and apparatus for generating an effect. The apparatus comprises a group of tactical controllers and a mission controller. The group of tactical controllers control heterogeneous types of hardware to generate an effect for at least one of electronic warfare operations or cyber mission operations. A selected tactical controller in the group of tactical controllers controls a particular type of hardware using a technique that is specific for controlling the particular type of hardware to generate the effect. The mission controller identifies the effect for the selected tactical controller and assigns a task to the selected tactical controller. The selected tactical controller performs the task to control a particular type of hardware using the technique to generate the effect for at least one of the electronic warfare operations or the cyber mission operations.