PROVIDING A DESCRIPTION OF AIRCRAFT INTENT
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of generating an aircraft intent description expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous four dimensional description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight, comprising:
- obtaining, by an intent generation infrastructure, a flight intent description corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of the flight;
ensuring, by the intent generation infrastructure, that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, wherein each of the instances of the flight intent is spanning a flight segment, and wherein the flight segments together span the period of the flight;
for each flight segment, generating, by the intent generation infrastructure, an associated flight segment intent dataset that comprises at least one of at least one instance of the flight intent and at least one instance of open aircraft intent, wherein each of the at least one instance of the open aircraft intent describes the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion;
enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the flight intent description to generate an enriched flight intent description by using user preferences;
enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the enriched flight intent description to generate a further enriched flight intent description by using operational context;
enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the further enriched flight intent description to generate a still further enriched flight intent description by using aircraft performance;
completing, by the intent generation infrastructure, the instances of the open aircraft intent to form a parametric aircraft intent description; and
optimizing, by the intent generation infrastructure, the parametric aircraft intent description to generate a fully closed aircraft intent description.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a computer-implemented method of generating an aircraft intent description expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous four-dimensional 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 enriched with objectives and constraints according to user preferences, operational context and aircraft performance. The resulting enriched flight intent is converted into a parametric aircraft intent description by ensuring that each flight segment closes all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft. At least some instances of aircraft intent 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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23 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of generating an aircraft intent description expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous four dimensional description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight, comprising:
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obtaining, by an intent generation infrastructure, a flight intent description corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of the flight; ensuring, by the intent generation infrastructure, that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, wherein each of the instances of the flight intent is spanning a flight segment, and wherein the flight segments together span the period of the flight; for each flight segment, generating, by the intent generation infrastructure, an associated flight segment intent dataset that comprises at least one of at least one instance of the flight intent and at least one instance of open aircraft intent, wherein each of the at least one instance of the open aircraft intent describes the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion; enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the flight intent description to generate an enriched flight intent description by using user preferences; enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the enriched flight intent description to generate a further enriched flight intent description by using operational context; enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the further enriched flight intent description to generate a still further enriched flight intent description by using aircraft performance; completing, by the intent generation infrastructure, the instances of the open aircraft intent to form a parametric aircraft intent description; and optimizing, by the intent generation infrastructure, the parametric aircraft intent description to generate a fully closed aircraft intent description. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system for generating an aircraft intent description expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous four dimensional description of an aircraft'"'"'s intended motion and configuration during a period of flight, comprising:
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a user preferences database; an operational context database; an aircraft performance database; and an intent generation infrastructure configured; to obtain a flight intent description corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of the flight, to ensure that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, wherein each of the instances of the flight intent is spanning a flight segment, and wherein the flight segments together span the period of the flight, to generate, for each flight segment, an associated flight segment intent dataset that comprises at least one of at least one instance of the flight intent and at least one instance of open aircraft intent, wherein each of the at least one instance of the open aircraft intent describes the aircraft'"'"'s motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion, to enrich the flight intent description to generate an enriched flight intent description by using user preferences by using the user preferences database, to enrich the enriched flight intent description to generate a further enriched flight intent description by using operational context by using the operational context database, to enrich the further enriched flight intent description to generate a still further enriched flight intent description by using aircraft performance by using the aircraft performance database, to complete the instances of the open aircraft intent to form a parametric aircraft intent description, and to optimize the parametric aircraft intent description to generate a fully closed aircraft intent description.
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