Assembly for the flight management of an aircraft and method for monitoring guidance instructions for such an assembly

    公开(公告)号:US10261510B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15781932

    申请日:2016-11-24

    Abstract: The invention relates to a flight management assembly (1) comprising two guidance chains (2A, 2B), each one provided with a flight management system (3A, 3B), each of said flight management systems (3A, 3B) carrying out at least one calculation of guidance instructions for the aircraft, the flight management assembly (1) also comprising at least one monitoring unit (4A, 4B) designed to monitor the guidance instructions calculated by the two flight management systems (3A, 3B) in such a way as to be able to detect and identify a defective flight management system, the monitoring unit (4A, 4B) comprising a monitoring device (5) which verifies particularly whether the following three conditions are met: a first derivative of extrapolated cross tracks is positive; a second derivative of extrapolated cross tracks is positive; and extrapolated positions of the aircraft are on the same side of an active segment of the flight plan followed by the aircraft as the current position of the aircraft.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND FOLLOWING AN OPTIMIZED FLIGHT TRAJECTORY OF AN AIRCRAFT

    公开(公告)号:US20200074867A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-05

    申请号:US16559898

    申请日:2019-09-04

    Abstract: A method and system for generating an optimized flight trajectory of an aircraft. The generation system includes a module for determining a long-term flight trajectory from an obstacle prediction model, a following module for the aircraft to fly by following the long-term flight trajectory and a module for updating the long term trajectory from a short-term trajectory as a function of characteristics of at least one obstacle detected during the following of the long-term flight trajectory by the aircraft and as a function of a predetermined risk criterion threshold. The generation system makes it possible to generate a flight trajectory that avoids obstacles simply and reliably.

    FLIGHT MANAGEMENT ASSEMBLY OF AN AIRCRAFT, OF A TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT IN PARTICULAR, AND TO A METHOD OF MONITORING SUCH A FLIGHT MANAGEMENT ASSEMBLY

    公开(公告)号:US20200005654A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-02

    申请号:US16458483

    申请日:2019-07-01

    Abstract: A flight management assembly of an aircraft and method of monitoring the flight management assembly. The assembly includes two flight management systems, and a monitoring and backup unit, each of the flight management systems configured for generating data including a trajectory and a prediction of a parameter of the aircraft, one of the flight management systems being active and the other being passive, the monitoring and backup unit configured for carrying out monitoring of at least one of the items of data generated by the active flight management system in order to verify if the item of data is valid, the flight management assembly carrying out, in case of validation of the monitored item of data, a synchronization of the monitoring and backup unit and of the passive flight management system, with data called synchronization data of the active flight management system, namely a flight plan and/or a flight trajectory.

    Flight management assembly of an aircraft, of a transport aircraft in particular, and to a method of monitoring such a flight management assembly

    公开(公告)号:US11538346B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-27

    申请号:US16458483

    申请日:2019-07-01

    Abstract: A flight management assembly of an aircraft and method of monitoring the flight management assembly. The assembly includes two flight management systems, and a monitoring and backup unit, each of the flight management systems configured for generating data including a trajectory and a prediction of a parameter of the aircraft, one of the flight management systems being active and the other being passive, the monitoring and backup unit configured for carrying out monitoring of at least one of the items of data generated by the active flight management system in order to verify if the item of data is valid, the flight management assembly carrying out, in case of validation of the monitored item of data, a synchronization of the monitoring and backup unit and of the passive flight management system, with data called synchronization data of the active flight management system, namely a flight plan and/or a flight trajectory.

    Aircraft Flight Management Unit And Method Of Monitoring Such A Unit

    公开(公告)号:US20170148331A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-25

    申请号:US15351852

    申请日:2016-11-15

    CPC classification number: G08G5/0039 G05D1/0077 G05D1/101 G08G5/003

    Abstract: A flight management unit includes two guidance subsystems each including a flight management system, each of the flight management systems being configured at least to extract a flight plan from at least one navigation database, to construct a flight trajectory, and to compute guidance commands for the aircraft. The flight management unit also includes at least one monitoring unit configured to compute a guidance command from a validated flight trajectory and a consolidated flight plan and to monitor the guidance command, as well as guidance commands computed by the two flight management systems so as to be able to detect and to identify a defective flight management system.

    Aircraft comprising a flight management architecture

    公开(公告)号:US12159538B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-03

    申请号:US17385132

    申请日:2021-07-26

    Abstract: An aircraft with a unit to transmit information on ability/inability of pilots to fly the aircraft. Guidance avionics include guidance architecture and a flight controller to fly the aircraft. The guidance architecture has two dissimilar guidance chains and a selection unit connected thereto, to the flight controller and to the unit for measuring physical ability/inability, a first guidance chain to compute a main path for the aircraft towards a destination airport based on a current state of the aircraft by following a flight plan and to compute main guidance instructions for following the main path, a second guidance chain to compute an emergency path for the aircraft towards a diversion airport based on an initial portion of the common path with the main path and to compute emergency guidance instructions for following the emergency path. The selection unit receives the main and emergency guidance instructions and transmits either one to the flight controller.

    AIRCRAFT COMPRISING A FLIGHT MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE

    公开(公告)号:US20220028285A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-27

    申请号:US17385132

    申请日:2021-07-26

    Abstract: An aircraft with a unit to transmit information on ability/inability of pilots to fly the aircraft. Guidance avionics include guidance architecture and a flight controller to fly the aircraft. The guidance architecture has two dissimilar guidance chains and a selection unit connected thereto, to the flight controller and to the unit for measuring physical ability/inability, a first guidance chain to compute a main path for the aircraft towards a destination airport based on a current state of the aircraft by following a flight plan and to compute main guidance instructions for following the main path, a second guidance chain to compute an emergency path for the aircraft towards a diversion airport based on an initial portion of the common path with the main path and to compute emergency guidance instructions for following the emergency path. The selection unit receives the main and emergency guidance instructions and transmits either one to the flight controller.

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