APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FLIGHT PLAN STATE FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

• US 20110130948A1
• Filed: 10/19/2010
• Published: 06/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, INHA Industry Partnership Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Seoung-Hyeon, Lee, Deok-Gyu, Park, Hyo-Dal, Kim, Do-Woo, Oh, Seung-Hee, Han, Jong-Wook
• Application Number:
  US12/907,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20110130948A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/120
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/003 Flight plan management

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control that manage the flight plan state by using time information and accurately manage departure and arrival states of an aircraft by utilizing a state processor only for departure/arrival. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control includes: a flight plan managing device generating a flight plan list on the basis of an inputted flight plan and setting a flight plan state of the flight plan included in the flight plan list; and a departure/arrival managing device generating a departure-scheduled aircraft list and an arrival-scheduled aircraft list on the basis of the flight plan state of the aircraft set by the flight plan managing device and managing departure and arrival of the aircraft on the basis of the departure-scheduled aircraft list and the arrival-scheduled aircraft list.

Claims

1. An apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control, comprising:

a flight plan managing device generating a flight plan list on the basis of an inputted flight plan and setting a flight plan state of the flight plan included in the flight plan list; and

a departure/arrival managing device generating a departure-scheduled aircraft list and an arrival-scheduled aircraft list on the basis of the flight plan state of the aircraft set by the flight plan managing device and managing departure and arrival of the aircraft on the basis of the departure-scheduled aircraft list and the arrival-scheduled aircraft list.

2. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 1, wherein the flight plan managing device sets any one of a standby state, an activation state, a termination state, and a discarding/deleting state as the flight plan state.

3. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 1, wherein the flight plan managing device sets the inputted flight plan to the standby state and adds it to the flight plan list.

4. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 1, further comprising a flight plan timer determining whether or not the flight plan included in the flight plan list is validation on the basis of validation condition information including an validation period, an validation day of the week, and an validation time.

5. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 4, wherein the flight plan managing device sets the flight plan state of the flight plan determined to be validation by the flight plan timer to the activation state.

6. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 5, wherein the departure/arrival managing device generates the departure-scheduled aircraft list and the arrival-scheduled aircraft list by detecting the flight plan set to the activation state among the flight plans included in the flight plan list.

7. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 1, wherein the departure/arrival managing device determines whether or not an aircraft included in the departure-scheduled aircraft list actually departs on the basis of an inputted actual aircraft departure time and deletes a flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually depart from the departure-scheduled aircraft list.

8. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 1, wherein the departure/arrival managing device determines whether or not an aircraft included in the arrival-scheduled aircraft list actually arrives on the basis of an inputted actual aircraft arrival time and deletes a flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually arrive from the arrival-scheduled aircraft list.

9. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 8, wherein the flight plan managing device deletes the corresponding flight plan from the flight plan list when the flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually arrive by the departure/arrival managing device is a general flight plan and sets the corresponding flight plan to the standby state when the flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually arrive by the departure/arrival managing device is a repetitive flight plan.

10. The apparatus for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 1, further comprising an input device receiving at least one of the flight plan, the actual aircraft departure time, and the actual aircraft arrival time.

11. A method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control, comprising:

generating a flight plan list on the basis of an inputted flight plan by a flight plan managing device;

setting a flight plan state of the flight plan included in the flight plan list generated at the generating a flight plan list by the flight plan managing device;

generating a departure-scheduled aircraft list and an arrival-scheduled aircraft list on the basis of the flight plan state of the aircraft set by the setting a flight plan state by a departure/arrival managing device; and

managing departure and arrival of the aircraft on the basis of the departure-scheduled aircraft list and the arrival-scheduled aircraft list generated at the generating departure and arrival-scheduled aircraft lists by the departure/arrival managing device.

12. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 11, wherein at the setting a flight plan state, any one of a standby state, an activation state, a termination state, and a discarding/deleting state is set as the flight plan state by flight plan managing device.

13. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 11, wherein at the generating a flight plan list, the inputted flight plan is set to the standby state and added to the flight plan list by the flight plan managing device.

14. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 11, further comprising determining whether or not the flight plan included in the flight plan list is validation on the basis of validation condition information including an validation period, an validation day of the week, and an validation time by a flight plan timer.

15. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 14, wherein at the setting a flight plan state, the flight plan state of the flight plan determined to be validation at the determining is set to the activation state by the flight plan managing device.

16. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 15, wherein at the generating departure and arrival-scheduled aircraft lists, the departure-scheduled aircraft list and the arrival-scheduled aircraft list are generated by detecting the flight plan set to the activation state among the flight plans included in the flight plan list by the departure/arrival managing device.

17. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 11, wherein at the managing departure and arrival of the aircraft, whether or not an aircraft included in the departure-scheduled aircraft list actually departs is determined on the basis of an inputted actual aircraft departure time and a flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually depart is deleted from the departure-scheduled aircraft list by the departure/arrival managing device.

18. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 11, wherein at the managing departure and arrival of the aircraft, whether or not an aircraft included in the arrival-scheduled aircraft list actually arrives is determined on the basis of an inputted actual aircraft arrival time and a flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually arrive is deleted from the arrival-scheduled aircraft list by the departure/arrival managing device.

19. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 18, wherein at the managing departure and arrival of the aircraft, the corresponding flight plan is deleted from the flight plan list when the flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually arrive by the departure/arrival managing device is a general flight plan and the corresponding flight plan is set to the standby state when the flight plan corresponding to the aircraft determined to actually arrive by the departure/arrival managing device is a repetitive flight plan, by the flight plan managing device.

20. The method for managing a flight plan state for an air traffic control according to claim 11, further comprising receiving at least one of the flight plan, the actual aircraft departure time, and the actual aircraft arrival time by an input device.