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PREDICTING AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY

  • US 20100305781A1
  • Filed: 09/10/2008
  • Published: 12/02/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of providing a description of aircraft intent expressed using a formal language, the method comprising:

  • receiving information defining how the aircraft is to be flown during a time interval, and storing the information in an information database;

    deriving a set of instructions from the information stored, wherein the set of instructions comprise configuration instructions that describe the aerodynamic configuration of the aircraft and motion instructions that describe the motion of the aircraft;

    ensuring that the set of instructions comply with a set of rules stored in a rules database thereby confirming that the configuration instructions define the aerodynamic configuration of the aircraft as required and that the motion instructions close the degrees of freedom of equations of motion used to describe the aircraft motion during the time interval; and

    expressing the set of instructions using a formal language.

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