INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CHECKLIST DISPLAY SYSTEM

• US 20120209468A1
• Filed: 02/16/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Thomas, Lisa C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,171,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance

Abstract

A method and apparatus for electronic checklist display system. A checklist display device is connected to a number of display screens. A display screen within the number of display screens displays an integrated electronic checklist within a checklist display window on the display screen. The integrated electronic checklist comprises a number of checklist items associated with a vehicle system, systems information for the vehicle system, and graphics representing a current status of a number of components of the vehicle system.

Claims

1. An electronic checklist display system comprising:

a checklist display device connected to a number of display screens;

a display screen within the number of display screens operative to display an integrated electronic checklist within a checklist display window on the display screen, in which the integrated electronic checklist comprises a number of checklist items associated with a vehicle system, systems information for the vehicle system, and graphics representing a current status of a number of components of the vehicle system.

2. The electronic checklist display system of claim 1, wherein the systems information for the vehicle system comprises portions of synoptic page information describing the vehicle system.

3. The electronic checklist display system of claim 1 further comprising:

a graphics module connected to the display screen and operative to update the graphics representing the current state of the number of components of the vehicle system to show changes to the vehicle system in real-time in response to actions performed to complete at least one checklist item.

4. The electronic checklist display system of claim 1 further comprising:

a monitoring module operative to send a signal triggering display of the number of checklist items associated with the vehicle system, systems information for the vehicle system, and the graphics representing the current state of the number of components of the vehicle system within the checklist display window in response to detecting an occurrence of a pre-determined event.

5. The electronic checklist display system of claim 1 further comprising:

a monitoring module operative to send a signal to an electronic checklist manager indicating a closed loop checklist item in the number of checklist items is completed in response to receiving sensor data indicating the closed loop checklist item is completed.

6. The electronic checklist display system of claim 1 further comprising:

an electronic checklist database configured to store a plurality of integrated electronic checklists, wherein each integrated electronic checklist in the plurality of integrated electronic checklists comprises a number of checklist items associated with at least one vehicle system, systems information for the at least one vehicle system, and graphics representing the current state of a number of components of the at least one vehicle system; and

an electronic checklist manager operative to identify a number of integrated electronic checklists to be performed by a user based on a current state of a number of vehicle systems and display a title of each checklist in the plurality of integrated electronic checklists in an order of priority.

7. The electronic checklist display system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle system is an aircraft system within an aircraft.

8. The electronic checklist display system of claim 1 further comprising:

a graphics module connected to the checklist display device and operative to display the graphics representing a number of actions associated with the number of checklist items, wherein the number of actions associated with the number of checklist items comprises at least one of actions to be performed by a user, actions initiated by the user, and actions completed by the user.

9. A method for displaying electronic checklists, the method comprising:

retrieving an integrated electronic checklist from a data storage device; and

displaying the integrated electronic checklist within a checklist display window on a display device, wherein the integrated electronic checklist comprises a number of checklist items associated with a vehicle system, systems information for the vehicle system, and graphics representing a current state of a number of components of the vehicle system.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the systems information for the vehicle system comprises at least one of portions of synoptic page information describing the vehicle system and vehicle system current status data.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

responsive to completion of a checklist item in the number of checklist items associated with the vehicle system, updating the graphics representing the current state of the number of components of the vehicle system to reflect the completion of the checklist item.

12. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

monitoring sensor data received from a number of vehicle system sensors for an occurrence of a pre-defined event; and

sending a signal triggering display of the integrated electronic checklist in response to the sensor data indicating the occurrence of the pre-defined event.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the occurrence of the pre-defined event is a non-normal event and wherein the integrated electronic checklist specifies a number of actions for resolving the non-normal event, and further comprising:

automatically displaying the integrated electronic checklist with instructions for performing the number of actions to resolve the non-normal event on a display screen.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the number of checklist items comprises a closed loop checklist item, and further comprising:

monitoring a number of vehicle system sensors; and

sending a signal to an electronic checklist manager indicating the closed loop checklist item is completed in response to receiving sensor data from the number of vehicle system sensors indicating an action to be performed for the closed loop checklist item is completed.

15. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

identifying a plurality of integrated electronic checklists to be completed, wherein each integrated electronic checklist in the plurality of integrated electronic checklists comprises a number of checklist items associated with at least one vehicle system, systems information for the at least one vehicle system, and graphics representing the current state of a number of components of the at least one vehicle system; and

displaying a title of each integrated electronic checklist in the plurality of integrated electronic checklists in a menu in an order of priority.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the vehicle system is an aircraft system within an aircraft.

17. The method of claim 9 further comprises:

identifying a number of actions associated with the number of checklist items within the integrated electronic checklist, wherein the graphics comprises a number of graphical representations of the number of actions, wherein the actions associated with the number of checklist items comprises at least one of actions to be performed by a user, actions initiated by the user, and actions completed by the user.

18. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

providing instructions for performing an action associated with a checklist item in the number of checklist items within the integrated electronic checklist, wherein the systems information and the graphics displayed in the checklist display window comprises the instructions for performing the action associated with the checklist item.

19. A computer readable storage medium storing computer usable program code which, when executed by a processor, performs a method for displaying electronic checklists comprising:

retrieving an integrated electronic checklist from a data storage device; and

displaying the integrated electronic checklist within a checklist display window on a display device, wherein the integrated electronic checklist comprises a number of checklist items associated with a vehicle system, systems information for the vehicle system, and graphics representing a current state of a number of components of the vehicle system.

20. An aircraft comprising:

a number of aircraft systems;

a checklist display device connected to a number of display screens; and

a multi-function display screen within the number of display screens operative to display a number of checklist items associated with at least one aircraft system in the number of aircraft systems, systems information for the at least one aircraft system, and graphics representing a current status of a number of components of the at least one aircraft system within a checklist display window on a display device.