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5548515 |
Method and system for airport control and management
An improved airport control/management system for controlling and managing the surface and airborne movement of vehicular and aircraft within a defined and selected airport space envelope of an...
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5519618 |
Airport surface safety logic
An airport safety logic system includes a target state machine, a prediction engine, light-control logic, and alert logic. The target state machine receives a plurality of tracks, each of which...
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5469371 |
Surfaced detection system for airports
A surface detection system for airport facilities is described wherein a plurality of infrared (IR) scanners as well as presence/absence detectors are located with respect to taxiways and runways...
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5457630 |
System for onboard lift analysis and apparatus therefor
A method and apparatus for measuring the lift generated by airfoils of an aircraft. This real-time analysis is accomplished by measuring a differential pressure between the upper and lower lift...
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5434571 |
Radar target simulator
The radar target simulator serves for the training of air traffic controllers. It comprises a radar device (10) detecting the approach area of a runway, and a display device (17) for displaying the...
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5416705 |
Method and apparatus for use of alphanumeric display as data entry scratchpad
An aircraft control and display system having a multifunction display for configuring the vehicle flight parameters and control of mission equipment utilizes a dedicated alphanumeric display as a...
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5388047 |
Aircraft traffic alert and collision avoidance device
A proximity warning device for aircraft responds solely to transmissions from transponders. The host aircraft has a host transponder and a signal is generated therein and coupled to the device to...
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5381140 |
Aircraft position monitoring system
There is provided an aircraft position monitoring system for monitoring the position of aircraft in a ground station. An air-borne sub-system mounted in the aircraft acquires, automatically and...
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5375058 |
Surface detection system for airports
A surface detection system for airport facilities is described wherein a plurality of infrared (IR) scanners as well as presence/absence detectors are located with respect to taxiways and runways...
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5364093 |
Golf distance measuring system and method
A method and system for determing the approximate distance from a golf ball to the golf cup on the golf-green is described. The system stores the location of the golf cup in computer memory and...
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5321615 |
Zero visibility surface traffic control system
Guide elements along paths and turns of a network emit guide signals for guiding vehicles along the paths and through the turns. Control elements, located at points in the network at which the...
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5319560 |
Analysis system for database fusion, graphic display, and disaggregation
An analysis system fuzes original data according to system and/or operator imposed rules, displays a graphic abstraction representing fuzed data, and provides, merely at the operator's request,...
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5268698 |
Target acquisition, locating and tracking system
In accordance with the present invention there is provided a monitoring system that monitors and locates objects such as airplanes and other vehicles on runways, taxiways, or other preprogrammed...
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5265023 |
Method for issuing adaptive ground delays to air traffic
A closed feedback system for issuing ground delays in air traffic control is disclosed, whereby the demand of arriving air traffic is constantly monitored and the ground delays are adjusted in real...
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5227786 |
Inside/out perspective format for situation awareness displays
A traffic information display format, situated in a craft, for observing traffic in a volume about the craft, having one or more viewing grids that display traffic on the display in a...
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5208591 |
Track extension for use with ATCRBS surveillance procedures
During ATCRBS surveillance procedures, a multiplicity of target aircraft are typically detected through target replies from interrogation signals. However, the nature of the target acquisition...
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5200902 |
Airport control/management system
Image on a computer screen of a 3-dimensional vehicle path is superimposed on a 3-dimensional map of a local space envelope. The 3-dimensional image is then used to control/manage the traffic in an...
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5200901 |
Direct entry air traffic control system for accident analysis and training
A site-selectable air traffic control system and method for interacting with a user, the system and method generating a representation of at least one moving aircraft having an initial position and...
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5173861 |
Motion constraints using particles
A system for detecting and resolving conflicts between a plurality of aircraft or other objects on potentially conflicting trajectories in space. A two-dimensional graph generated on a...
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5111400 |
Automatic integrated real-time flight crew information system
An integrated real-time information dissemination system for aircraft within a predetermined range of an air traffic control facility (ATC), includes airborne components for receiving...
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5058024 |
Conflict detection and resolution between moving objects
A machine-implemented method for detecting and resolving conflict between a plurality of objects on trajectories in space. A two-dimensional representation is generated which depicts the trajectory...
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5029092 |
Device of suppressing incorrect alarms for use in a collision avoidance system installed in an airplane
A device of suppressing incorrect alarms to be issued from an airplane collision avoidance system installed in a first airplane, wherein when it is found that a product obtained by multiplying a...
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5025382 |
Datalink controller interface
A digital data link is provided between an air traffic controller at a ground station and the pilot of an aircraft through digital communication between a computer on that aircraft and a...
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5017142 |
Interactive method for testing working memory
The present invention provides an interactive method for testing the working memory of a test subject. The method includes displaying several encoded symbols randomly positioned on a video display...
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4999782 |
Fixed curved path waypoint transition for aircraft
Control apparatus for an aircraft area navigation system provides transitioning from an inbound leg to an outbound leg of a lateral navigation waypoint with a fixed curved transition path with or...
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4979137 |
Air traffic control training system
An air traffic control training system and method for interacting with a user, the system and method generating a representation of at least one moving aircraft having an initial position and...
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4949267 |
Site-selectable air traffic control system
A site-selectable air traffic control system and method for interacting with a user, the system and method generating a representation of at least one moving aircraft having an initial position and...
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4899161 |
High accuracy coordinate conversion method for air traffic control applications
A computer method is disclosed for accurately transforming multiple radar observations of aircraft into a common coordinate system for air traffic control applications. The method involves a...
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4890232 |
Display aid for air traffic controllers
The locations of aircraft on a first approach to a first runway are displayed on a line substantially parallel to a second approach to a second runway, the second runway converging with the first...
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4845629 |
Airport surveillance systems
An automatic system for surveillance, guidance and fire fighting in airports. The system is arranged to monitor the position of aircraft in the taxiways, parking areas and flight lanes and in the...
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4827418 |
Expert system for air traffic control and controller training
A expert system form of artificial intelligence for control of air traffic which may also be utilized for air traffic controller training. The expert system receives input data representing the...
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4823272 |
N-Dimensional information display method for air traffic control
Critical differences in the position and motion of aircraft in congested N-dimensional airspace are highly discernible when processed and mapped onto a parallel N-coordinate plane. Trajectory...
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4812991 |
Method for precision dynamic differential positioning
A method and apparatus for rapidly and accurately determining the position coordinates of a remote, movable receiver relative to a fixed reference receiver. The technique utilizes successive code...
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4706198 |
Computerized airspace control system
A computerized system is provided for automated aircraft traffic control. The system includes a master control unit having stored information identifying and characterizing all aircraft flying in...
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4646243 |
Apparatus for determining the groundspeed rate of an aircraft
Aircraft gyro (20, 22) signals θ and φ, representative of pitch and roll attitude, respectively, and accelerometer (24, 26, 28) signals a x , a y , a z , representative of longitudinal, lateral,...
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4521857 |
Aviation weather information dissemination system
An aviation weather information dissemination system and method involves regional weather-information accumulating and interpreting stations (12A-O) located throughout a geographic area (10). Each...
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4413316 |
Data processing system for pre-planning the flight of an aircraft
A data processing system for pre-planning the flight of an aircraft includes a plotting board arranged to supply position coordinates of selected points on a route to a processor. Other inputs to...
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4197536 |
Airport surface identification and control system
For aircraft equipped with ATCRBS and ILS, an identification and surface guidance system including a plurality of detection positions each including an interrogator and an auxiliary transponder...
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4163283 |
Automatic method to identify aircraft types
Two sensors spaced at a known separation produce signal pulses when activated by the wheels of a taxiing aircraft. The signals are transmitted to a processor in which the wheelbase of the aircraft...
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4151595 |
System for controlling ground movements on airfields
The system enables aircraft movements on runways and taxiways to be guided and a corresponding ground traffic to be controlled. It comprises sensors for detecting pressure variations and which are...
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4139170 |
Command control system
10. A method for use in controlling the travel of a vehicle comprising the steps of first deriving two narrow band noise signals of different frequencies, then delaying one of said signals by an...
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4137764 |
Vortex advisory system
The separation between aircraft approaching a common runway is minimized by measuring the existing wind conditions at a preselected point relative to the runway threshold and basing a prediction of...
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4104512 |
Computer control of moving objects such as aircraft moving from one sector to another
A method and system of maintaining continuity of computer control and information exchange between moving vehicles such as aircraft and a computer, with a different computer being operative as a...
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4063073 |
Computer system to prevent collision between moving objects such as aircraft moving from one sector to another
A method and system of preventing collisions between aircraft comprising defining an imaginary airspace around the center of each aircraft, the airspace having a given radius (R) and height (H),...
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3998412 |
Helical vertical path control apparatus for aircraft area navigation system
Control apparatus for an aircraft area navigation system provides a vertical path control signal to cause the aircraft to ascend or descend along a helical surface as the craft executes a...
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3813526 |
GAIN CHANGE CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION
The present gain change means represent an improvement over the time synchronization means for remotely positioned timing devices. The present improvement includes means for changing the gain so as...
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3787665 |
MEANS FOR SYNCHRONIZING REMOTELY POSITIONED TIMING DEVICES
Improvements in means for synchronizing remotely positioned timing devices including means to provide multiple error correction factors which are functions of the time error or time difference...
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3775767 |
AIR-TRAFFIC REGULATING SYSTEMS
An improved position-prediction method and subsystem to permit better ground prediction of aircraft future position is disclosed. It is proposed for use in air traffic control systems which offer...
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3534367 |
TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
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3504165 |
NAVIGATION STATION IDENTIFICATION
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