Runway and airport incursion alerting system and method
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1. An apparatus for detecting incursions for an aircraft or other airport surface vehicles, the apparatus comprising:
- an incursion processor aboard the aircraft receiving ownship information from an ownship navigation processor, traffic information from a traffic surveillance processor, obstacle information from an obstacle detector, and airport layout information from a database and generating alert information in response to alerting rules, wherein the alerting rules are from a set of alerting rules associated with particular airports or sets of airports; and
a display processor for displaying the alert information.
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Abstract
An apparatus for detecting incursions for an aircraft and surface vehicles includes an incursion processor receiving ownship position from an ownship navigation processor, traffic information from a traffic surveillance processor, and obstacle information from an obstacle detector and generating alert information. The apparatus also includes a display processor receiving airport chart information and providing display information for displaying the alert information and airport chart information.
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1. An apparatus for detecting incursions for an aircraft or other airport surface vehicles, the apparatus comprising:
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an incursion processor aboard the aircraft receiving ownship information from an ownship navigation processor, traffic information from a traffic surveillance processor, obstacle information from an obstacle detector, and airport layout information from a database and generating alert information in response to alerting rules, wherein the alerting rules are from a set of alerting rules associated with particular airports or sets of airports; and a display processor for displaying the alert information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of detecting an incursion on board an ownship vehicle, the method comprising:
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electronically receiving an airport layout associated with an airport; electronically receiving a state of the ownship vehicle; electronically receiving a state of aircraft traffic in the vicinity of the airport; electronically receiving a state of surface vehicles in the vicinity of the airport; electronically receiving a state of obstacles in the vicinity of the airport; electronically receiving operational and alerting rules for incursion detection; and computing incursion alerts using an electronic processor based upon the alerting and operational rules, and the state of the ownship vehicle, the state of aircraft traffic, and the state of obstacles, the alerting and operational rules being selected from a set of alerting and operational rules specific to particular airports. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system for providing alert information in an aircraft environment for an aircraft, the system comprising:
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a real-time sensor interface for receiving obstacle information from at least one real-time sensor; a traffic surveillance interface for receiving traffic information from at least one ground-based infrastructure type system; a processor for use on board the aircraft for determining the alert information in response to ownship information, an airport chart, the traffic information, the obstacle information and alerting rules, the alerting rules being specific to a particular airport or set of airports. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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