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8180562 System and method for taxi route entry parsing  
A method and apparatus for building, creating, or otherwise specifying an airport ground taxi navigation route for an aircraft from an input of the route is disclosed. The apparatus includes a...
8165734 Method and device for guiding an aircraft  
Disclosed is a method and device of guiding an aircraft along a flight trajectory to comply with a time constraint for arriving at a required arrival time at a waypoint of the flight trajectory....
8160756 Method and device for generating a speed for an aircraft during a taxiing  
Disclosed is a system for generating a controlled speed for an aircraft along a ground trajectory. The system provides for receiving a ground trajectory of the aircraft and the speed profile of the...
8155803 Device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft  
A device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft. The device automatically determines when an engine failure is detected, vectoring settings including speed,...
8150565 Method and device for aiding the piloting of an aircraft to prepare a phase of descent  
A method and device for aiding the piloting of an aircraft while respecting a time of arrival constraint at a first waypoint during a phase of descent. The method includes calculating an instant of...
8140257 Method and device for generating a taxiing trajectory for an aircraft  
Disclosed is a method and device for generating an aircraft ground path for piloting an aircraft along the ground of an airport domain. Geographical coordinates of reference points corresponding to...
8135503 Ground proximity sensor  
An unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a housing, a rotor that is rotated to propel the housing, a pressure sensor that generates a signal indicative of an air pressure proximate a bottom surface of...
8121746 Method and a device for monitoring the minimum flying altitude of an aircraft  
The present invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring the minimum flying altitude of an aircraft. The method comprises a phase for calculating a vertical flight profile describing...
8121779 Information processing apparatus, information providing method, program, and information providing system  
There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an information management apparatus storing service information including place information, service content...
8112187 Formation flight control method  
The invention relates to a method for controlling the formation flight of at least two aircraft (1,2). The first aircraft (1) includes means of transmitting its position, its velocity and its...
8108085 Control system for vehicles  
A system for controlling flight of an aircraft has sensors, a receiver, and a digital control system, all of which are carried aboard the aircraft. The sensors determine the position of the...
8095251 System for monitoring anemobaroclinometric parameters for aircraft  
The disclosed embodiments concerns a system for monitoring anemobaroclinometric parameters in an aircraft, including a primary detection circuit having at least one measurement channel. The...
8086362 Method and device for aiding the piloting of an aircraft  
Method and device for assisting the piloting of an aircraft. The device (1) comprises means (4) for determining, using a roll instruction and measured current values of external characteristics and...
8082070 Methods and systems for displaying assistance messages to aircraft operators  
Methods and systems for displaying assistance messages to aircraft operators are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment includes receiving an input from an aircraft operator at an...
8078345 Method and device for automatically controlling an emergency descent of an aircraft  
A method and device automatically engage an emergency descent function of an aircraft as a function of pressure variation measured in the cabin of the aircraft.
8055394 Engine thrust values estimation  
A method for estimating engine thrust values of an aircraft is disclosed, the method comprising calculating estimated thrust value of an engine based on an equation of longitudinal motion, aircraft...
8041472 Positioning device, and navigation system  
A positioning device that detects a position of a mobile body with a radio navigation positioning unit includes: first and second autonomous sensors obtaining behavioral information on the mobile...
8041471 Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and vertical take-off and landing aircraft control method  
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft that includes AC motors, which drive fans that propel the aircraft, and a control device for controlling the AC motors adaptively based on a thrust control...
8031877 In-vehicle communication system  
An in-vehicle communication system includes a control unit which locates coupling points of each one of active speaker units to in-vehicle network. The plurality of the active speaker units...
8032266 Method for selecting aircraft access point into a lateral free evolution area  
This method facilitates the joining, by an aircraft, of a secure zone, without constraint of deployment in the horizontal plane, in particular when the latter is threatened by a risk of collision...
8014909 Control system for vehicles  
A system for controlling flight of an aircraft has sensors (37, 43), a receiver (45), and a digital control system (57), all of which are carried aboard the aircraft. The sensors (37, 43) determine...
8014910 Assisted take-off method for aircraft  
A reference value is arbitrarily selected from a range of possible aircraft rotation speeds. A position of a trimmable horizontal stabilizer is angled in accordance with a centering of the...
8010267 Methods and system for time of arrival control using available speed authority  
Methods and a system for a vehicle control system using a reference time profile including an upper control bound and a lower control bound are provided. The system includes an input device...
8000845 Method and device for dynamically alleviating loads generated on an airplane  
A device detects an air disturbance and controls the deflection of aircraft control surfaces when the disturbance is detected.
7974745 Avionic aviation system with a ground station for automatic elimination of resultant failures in aircraft, and corresponding method  
An avionic aviation system including: a ground station that is linked to an aircraft via a wireless interface; wherein the ground station includes, a receiver that receives, via a wireless...
7970501 Methods and systems utilizing true airspeed to improve vertical velocity accuracy  
An inertial navigation system which includes a first control system and a second control system is described. The first control system is configured to estimate a vertical velocity based in part on...
7970500 Sensor fusion system and method for estimating position, speed and orientation of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft  
This invention relates to a system for estimating the position, velocity and orientation of a vehicle, by determining the components of two noncollinear constant unit vectors b,b according to...
7962255 System and method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors  
A method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors including obtaining uncorrected acceleration measurements on board a vehicle; obtaining independent position and independent velocity data...
7949488 Movement monitoring systems and associated methods  
Systems and methods are disclosed that monitor movement of a person, or of a vehicle ridden by the person, to determine speed, distance traveled and/or airtime of the person or vehicle....
7941250 Method and a device for obtaining a predictive vertical speed of a rotorcraft  
A method and a device for obtaining a predictive vertical speed of a rotorcraft, the device constituting a predictive vertical speed indicator (1) that includes at least: first elements (1′) for m...
7930074 Vertical speed and flight path command module for displacement collective utilizing tactile cueing and tactile feedback  
A flight control system includes a collective position command module for a lift axis (collective pitch) which, in combination with an active collective system, provides a force feedback such that...
7930073 Method and system for controlling airfoil actuators  
A method of measuring the state of flow above an airfoil using an estimation of the velocity field based on a combination of Particle Image Velocimetry PIV and multiple surface pressure...
7917254 Aircraft guidance using localizer capture criteria for rectilinear displacement data  
Systems and methods for aircraft guidance using a localizer capture criteria for rectilinear displacement data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a rectilinear...
7912593 Merging and spacing speed target calculation  
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer programs, and apparatus for adjusting a speed target of an aircraft. In particular, the adjustment of the speed target of the aircraft...
7881710 Managing features available on a portable communication device based on a travel speed detected by the portable communication device  
A portable communication device detects a current speed of travel of the portable communication device independent of any vehicle temporarily transporting the portable communication device. A speed...
7881867 Onboard system for the prevention of collisions of an aircraft with the ground with end-of-conflict indication  
The TAWS system, in addition to an FTLA function for detecting the risk of collision with the terrain, has an end-of-conflict announcement function COT which is activated after the cessation of a...
7865289 Method of distributing braking between the brakes of an aircraft  
A method of distribution braking between the brakes of an aircraft. The method includes a first step of estimating a braking force objective and a steering torque objective to be achieved by the...
7826971 Method for reducing nuisance alarms for anti-collision with obstacles on aircraft  
A method for filtering anti-collision alarms for aircraft, the said aircraft comprising means for calculating its speed and extrapolated positions on its trajectory, the said extrapolated positions...
7791529 System for estimating the speed of an aircraft, and an application thereof to detecting obstacles  
The invention relates to a method of determining an estimated speed of an aircraft relative to ground being overflown by the aircraft, in which use is made of the sum of an acceleration measurement...
7783393 Enhanced vertical situation display  
A vertical situation display system for use in a vehicle such as, for example, an aircraft, is provided. A side view of an intended route of flight may be shown with altitude restrictions, airspace...
7756612 Method and a device for providing assistance in piloting a rotorcraft at takeoff  
The invention relates to a method of piloting a rotorcraft having a plurality of engines for driving at least one lift and propulsion rotor, in which method, so long as the rotorcraft has not...
7726117 Method for controlling an internal combustion engine  
The invention relates to a method for controlling an internal combustion engine with a motor control system that adjusts the exhaust-gas temperature by influencing the air-fuel mixture. Said motor...
7693613 Curvilinear distance estimation method for a moving vehicle with limited maneuverability  
In distance maps used in order to facilitate the navigation of craft such as an aircraft, the distances estimated take into account obstacles to be circumvented but not the maneuverability of the...
7689328 Determining suitable areas for off-airport landings  
A routing tool is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and system include receiving flight data and geographic data in the aircraft, and generating route data based on the flight data and the...
7640083 Record and playback system for aircraft  
Multiple data and images are multiplexed and sequenced in order to minimize the recording and monitoring hardware required to process the images, providing a detailed record of an event, greatly...
7626514 Systems and methods for reducing nuisance alerts for helicopter enhanced ground proximity warning systems  
Systems and methods for controlling activation of a look-ahead function of a terrain alert and warning system. The system receives rate of climb and aircraft speed information, compares the rate of...
7617023 Process and device for monitoring the validity of a speed cue of an aircraft and system for generating a speed cue comprising such a device  
A process for monitoring the validity of a speed cue of an aircraft may include computing a coefficient of lift, which is representative of the lift of the aircraft, on the basis of values of...
7610123 Vision-aided system and method for guiding a vehicle  
A method and system for guiding a vehicle comprises a location determining receiver for collecting location data for the vehicle. A vision module collects vision data for the vehicle. A location...
7561945 Sum integration estimating of the vertical speed for a rotary wing aircraft  
A process and device for estimating the vertical speed of a rotary wing aircraft may include integrating the sum of: (1) a first component corresponding to a vertical acceleration measurement and...
7561067 Airspeed / wind speed measurement device for aircraft, and display device for same  
A measurement system for an aircraft having the three-axis components of the airspeed of the aircraft, the three-axis components of the wind speed currently encountered by the aircraft, and the...
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