Mission management system of an aircraft
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1. A mission management system configured to manage a mission of an aircraft, the mission management system being located onboard the aircraft and comprising:
- a flight management system comprising a flight management unit, the flight management unit being configured to define and manage a flight plan and an associated flight trajectory for a flight phase of the mission;
an airport navigation unit configured to define and manage a ground taxiing plan on an airport and an associated taxiing trajectory for at least one ground phase of the mission; and
a mission management unit linked to the flight management unit and to the airport navigation unit and being configured to manage a continuity between the ground and flight phases of the mission and mission prediction computations,wherein said flight management system has an architecture comprising;
a core module configured to implement generic functionalities related to the management of the flight of the aircraft;
a supplementary module distinct from the core module and configured to implement specific supplementary functions different from the generic functionalities implemented by the core module;
a data exchange interface configured to link together the core and supplementary modules, andwherein the flight management unit is housed in the core module and the mission management unit is housed in the supplementary module.
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Abstract
A mission management system to manage both ground and flight phases of a mission of an aircraft is proposed. The mission management system may be implemented in flight management system architecture with core and supplementary modules distinct from each other. The core module may implement a set of generic functionalities related to a flight management of the aircraft, and the supplementary module may implement supplementary functionalities specific to an entity to which the aircraft belongs. The mission management system may include a flight management unit to define and manage a flight plan and associated flight trajectory, an airport navigation unit to define and manage a ground plan and associated ground trajectory, and a mission management unit to manage a continuity between the ground and flight phases of the mission and prediction computations made by the flight management and the airport navigation units.
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1. A mission management system configured to manage a mission of an aircraft, the mission management system being located onboard the aircraft and comprising:
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a flight management system comprising a flight management unit, the flight management unit being configured to define and manage a flight plan and an associated flight trajectory for a flight phase of the mission; an airport navigation unit configured to define and manage a ground taxiing plan on an airport and an associated taxiing trajectory for at least one ground phase of the mission; and a mission management unit linked to the flight management unit and to the airport navigation unit and being configured to manage a continuity between the ground and flight phases of the mission and mission prediction computations, wherein said flight management system has an architecture comprising; a core module configured to implement generic functionalities related to the management of the flight of the aircraft; a supplementary module distinct from the core module and configured to implement specific supplementary functions different from the generic functionalities implemented by the core module; a data exchange interface configured to link together the core and supplementary modules, and wherein the flight management unit is housed in the core module and the mission management unit is housed in the supplementary module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14)
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9. A method of operating a mission management system to manage a mission of an aircraft, the mission management system being located onboard the aircraft and comprising a flight management system comprising a flight management unit, an airport navigation unit, and a mission management unit linked to the flight management unit and to the airport navigation unit, the method comprising:
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distributing and synchronizing, by the mission management unit, computations of predictions of the mission between the flight management unit and the airport navigation unit, wherein predictions of a flight phase of the mission are computed by the flight management unit and predictions of a ground phase of the mission are computed by the airport navigation unit. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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