Flight Trajectory Prediction with Application of Environmental Conditions
First Claim
1. A flight trajectory prediction system comprising a processor programmed to perform the following operations:
- (a) obtaining flight information and aircraft state information from a flight object;
(b) determining whether the obtained information is sufficient to predict a trajectory; and
(c) calculating a predicted flight trajectory in response to a determination by operation (b) that the obtained information is sufficient to predict a flight trajectory, wherein the predicted flight trajectory is calculated using current environmental information.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for generating a predicted flight trajectory using a combination of aircraft state data, flight information, environmental information, historical data or derived flight information from aircraft messaging which can be used for the transmission of environmental data. The generated trajectory prediction is assigned a level of confidence based on fidelity, merit or accuracy. The level of predicted accuracy is based on the number of and sources of the specific information, time, distance or flight phase. The predicted trajectory includes pseudo-waypoints at flight transitions not readily available in the flight information and also includes the environmental conditions at all waypoint (including pseudo-waypoint) locations.
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28 Claims
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1. A flight trajectory prediction system comprising a processor programmed to perform the following operations:
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(a) obtaining flight information and aircraft state information from a flight object; (b) determining whether the obtained information is sufficient to predict a trajectory; and (c) calculating a predicted flight trajectory in response to a determination by operation (b) that the obtained information is sufficient to predict a flight trajectory, wherein the predicted flight trajectory is calculated using current environmental information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for predicting a flight trajectory comprising:
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(a) obtaining flight information and aircraft state information from a flight object; (b) determining whether the obtained information is sufficient to predict a trajectory; and (c) calculating a predicted flight trajectory in response to a determination by operation (b) that the obtained information is sufficient to predict the flight trajectory, wherein the predicted flight trajectory is calculated using current environmental information. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system comprising:
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a trajectory object manager which generates a trajectory object based at least in part on a trajectory type and information in a flight object if the information in the flight object is sufficient to calculate a trajectory; and a trajectory predictions processor which generates a predicted flight trajectory based at least in part on information in said trajectory object and current environmental information, wherein said trajectory predictions processor iteratively computes predicted flight trajectories with the application of environmental conditions. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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