Checklist Administration System for a Vehicle

• US 20090108140A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Adams, Brian A., Parker, Thomas L., Smith, Timothy D., Yeager, Matthew R.
• Application Number:
  US11/929,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20090108140A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 244/190
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2201/20 Remote controls
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

According to one embodiment, code embodied in a computer readable storage medium is configured to generate a checklist for a vehicle by receiving a measured value obtained from at least one sensor configured on the vehicle, setting a parameter value that is associated with the at least one sensor to the measured value, and displaying the checklist on a user interface. The checklist has a number of parameter fields associated with various operating characteristics of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A checklist administration system for an unmanned vehicle system comprising:

an unmanned vehicle control station in communication with at least one sensor that is configured to measure an operating parameter of an unmanned vehicle, the unmanned vehicle control station operable to;

generate a checklist having a plurality of parameter fields, each of the parameter fields having an associated parameter value, one of the parameter fields representing the operating parameter;

receive a measured value from the at least one sensor;

set the parameter value associated with the one of the parameter fields equal to the measured value; and

display the checklist on a user interface.

2. The checklist administrations system of claim 1, wherein the unmanned vehicle control station is further operable to control at least one actuator coupled to the unmanned vehicle.

3. The checklist administration system of claim 1, wherein the unmanned vehicle control station is further operable to generate the checklist from a generic checklist having a plurality of generic parameters by associating at least a subset of the generic parameters with a corresponding subset of the parameter fields.

4. The checklist administration system of claim 3, wherein the generic checklist is formatted according to an extensible markup language (XML) schema.

5. The checklist administration system of claim 3, wherein the unmanned vehicle control station is further operable to generate the checklist from an intermediate code.

6. The checklist administration system of claim 1, wherein the unmanned vehicle control station is further operable to generate the checklist in response to an event from at least one second sensor configured on the unmanned vehicle.

7. The checklist administration system of claim 6, wherein the unmanned vehicle control station is further operable to respond to the event using a daemon process.

8. The checklist administration system of claim 1, wherein the unmanned vehicle is an unmanned aerial vehicle.

9. Code embodied in a computer readable storage medium, operable, when executed by a processor, to:

generate a checklist having a plurality of parameter fields associated with a plurality of operating parameters of a vehicle, each of the parameter fields having an associated parameter value;

receive a measured value from at least one sensor configured on the vehicle, the measured value associated with one of the plurality of parameter fields;

set the parameter value associated with the one of the parameter fields equal to the measured value; and

display the checklist on a user interface.

10. The code of claim 9, further operable to generate the checklist from a generic checklist having a plurality of generic parameters by associating at least a subset of the generic parameters with a corresponding subset of the parameter fields.

11. The code of claim 10, wherein the generic checklist is formatted according to an extensible markup language (XML) schema.

12. The code of claim 10, further operable to generate the checklist from an intermediate code.

13. The code of claim 9, further operable to generate the checklist in response to an event from at least one second sensor configured on the vehicle.

14. The code of claim 13, further operable to respond to the event using a daemon process.

15. The code of claim 9, wherein the vehicle is an unmanned vehicle and the code is implemented on an unmanned vehicle control station.

16. A method comprising:

generating a checklist having a plurality of parameter fields associated with a plurality of operating parameters of a vehicle, each of the parameter fields having an associated parameter value;

receiving a measured value from at least one sensor configured on the vehicle, the measured value associated with one of the plurality of parameter fields;

setting the parameter value associated with the one of the parameter fields equal to the measured value; and

displaying the checklist on a user interface.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising controlling at least one actuator coupled to the unmanned vehicle.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein generating a checklist further comprises generating the checklist from a generic checklist having a plurality of generic parameters by associating at least a subset of the generic parameters with a corresponding subset of the parameter fields.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein generating the checklist from a generic checklist further comprises generating a checklist from a generic checklist that is formatted according to an extensible markup language (XML) schema.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein generating a checklist further comprises generating the checklist in response to an event from at least one second sensor configured on the vehicle.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein generating the checklist in response to the event further comprises generating the checklist in response to the event using a daemon process.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein generating a checklist having a plurality of parameter fields associated with a plurality of operating parameters of a vehicle further comprises generating a checklist having a plurality of parameter fields associated with a plurality of operating parameters of an unmanned vehicle.