PROVIDING A DESCRIPTION OF AIRCRAFT INTENT
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of generating a description of aircraft intent expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight, comprising:
- obtaining a description of flight intent corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of flight;
ensuring that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, each instance of flight intent spanning a flight segment with the flight segments together spanning the period of flight;
converting the parsed flight intent into parametric aircraft intent by generating an associated flight segment description for each flight segment that comprises instances of flight intent to close all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft during the flight segment, wherein each instance of flight intent provides a description of the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion thereby closing the associated degree of freedom of motion and/or a description of the aircraft'"'"'s configuration to close at least one degree of freedom of configuration, and wherein at least some flight segment descriptions contain a parameter range; and
wherein the method further comprises optimising the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for the parameter of each parameter range.
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of generating a description of aircraft intent expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight. A flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent that span a flight segment, the flight segments together spanning the period of flight. The parsed flight intent is converted into parametric aircraft intent by generating an associated flight segment description for each flight segment that comprises instances of flight intent to close all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft. At least some flight segment descriptions contain a parameter range, and the method further comprises optimising the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for the parameter of each parameter range.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of generating a description of aircraft intent expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight, comprising:
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obtaining a description of flight intent corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of flight; ensuring that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, each instance of flight intent spanning a flight segment with the flight segments together spanning the period of flight; converting the parsed flight intent into parametric aircraft intent by generating an associated flight segment description for each flight segment that comprises instances of flight intent to close all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft during the flight segment, wherein each instance of flight intent provides a description of the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion thereby closing the associated degree of freedom of motion and/or a description of the aircraft'"'"'s configuration to close at least one degree of freedom of configuration, and wherein at least some flight segment descriptions contain a parameter range; and wherein the method further comprises optimising the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for the parameter of each parameter range. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for generating a description of aircraft intent expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight, the system comprising:
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a processor; a storage medium comprising instructions thereon, that when executed by said processor, cause the processor to; obtain a description of flight intent corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of flight; ensure that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, each instance of flight intent spanning a flight segment with the flight segments together spanning the period of flight; convert the parsed flight intent into parametric aircraft intent by generating an associated flight segment description for each flight segment that comprises instances of flight intent to close all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft during the flight segment, wherein each instance of flight intent provides a description of the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion thereby closing the associated degree of freedom of motion and/or a description of the aircraft'"'"'s configuration to close at least one degree of freedom of configuration, and wherein at least some flight segment descriptions contain a parameter range; and optimize the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for the parameter of each parameter range. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An aircraft comprising:
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a processor; a storage medium comprising instructions thereon, that when executed by said processor, cause the processor to; obtain a description of flight intent corresponding to a flight plan spanning a period of flight; ensure that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, each instance of flight intent spanning a flight segment with the flight segments together spanning the period of flight; convert the parsed flight intent into parametric aircraft intent by generating an associated flight segment description for each flight segment that comprises instances of flight intent to close all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft during the flight segment, wherein each instance of flight intent provides a description of the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion thereby closing the associated degree of freedom of motion and/or a description of the aircraft'"'"'s configuration to close at least one degree of freedom of configuration, and wherein at least some flight segment descriptions contain a parameter range; optimize the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for the parameter of each parameter range; and calculate a trajectory for the aircraft for the period of flight from the aircraft intent.
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20. A tangible computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon instructions for generating a description of aircraft intent expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to:
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obtain a description of flight intent corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of flight; ensure that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, each instance of flight intent spanning a flight segment with the flight segments together spanning the period of flight; convert the parsed flight intent into parametric aircraft intent by generating an associated flight segment description for each flight segment that comprises instances of flight intent to close all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft during the flight segment, wherein each instance of flight intent provides a description of the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion thereby closing the associated degree of freedom of motion and/or a description of the aircraft'"'"'s configuration to close at least one degree of freedom of configuration, and wherein at least some flight segment descriptions contain a parameter range; and
optimize the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for the parameter of each parameter range.
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