Automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) system for ownership and traffic situational awareness
First Claim
1. An ADS-B system coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle for increased situational awareness and self-separation assurance comprising:
- a telemetry system in said unmanned aerial vehicle, said telemetry system including a transceiver for wireless communication with a ground control station;
at least one GPS/WAAS antenna disposed on said unmanned aerial vehicle;
at least an upper and lower UAT antenna disposed on said unmanned aerial vehicle;
at least one altitude encoder,a Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) in said unmanned aerial vehicle and in communication with said telemetry system for compiling ownship ADS-B Out messages and for receiving air-to-air ADS-B In messages from nearby aircraft and ADS-R and TIS-B messages from ground based transceivers, said UAT further comprising a digital computer programmed with control software comprising computer instructions stored on non-transitory computer memory for storing said ADS-B In messages and consolidating said ADS-B In messages with said ADS-B Out messages, and for communicating said consolidated ADS-B Out messages to said telemetry system for transmission to a ground control station; and
a ground control station (GCS) comprising a digital computer programmed with control software stored on non-transitory computer memory, said software including,a loss link redundancy module to compensate for a lost telemetry link,a translation module for generating KML scripts from ADS-B Out and ADS-B In data, anda synthetic display management user-interface for providing a synthetic user-configurable three-dimensional display of said ADS-B Out and ADS-B In data on a geobrowser.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The present invention proposes an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) architecture and process, in which priority aircraft and ADS-B IN traffic information are included in the transmission of data through the telemetry communications to a remote ground control station. The present invention further proposes methods for displaying general aviation traffic information in three and/or four dimension trajectories using an industry standard Earth browser for increased situation awareness and enhanced visual acquisition of traffic for conflict detection. The present invention enable the applications of enhanced visual acquisition of traffic, traffic alerts, and en-route and terminal surveillance used to augment pilot situational awareness through ADS-B IN display and information in three or four dimensions for self-separation awareness.
-
Citations
27 Claims
-
1. An ADS-B system coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle for increased situational awareness and self-separation assurance comprising:
-
a telemetry system in said unmanned aerial vehicle, said telemetry system including a transceiver for wireless communication with a ground control station; at least one GPS/WAAS antenna disposed on said unmanned aerial vehicle; at least an upper and lower UAT antenna disposed on said unmanned aerial vehicle; at least one altitude encoder, a Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) in said unmanned aerial vehicle and in communication with said telemetry system for compiling ownship ADS-B Out messages and for receiving air-to-air ADS-B In messages from nearby aircraft and ADS-R and TIS-B messages from ground based transceivers, said UAT further comprising a digital computer programmed with control software comprising computer instructions stored on non-transitory computer memory for storing said ADS-B In messages and consolidating said ADS-B In messages with said ADS-B Out messages, and for communicating said consolidated ADS-B Out messages to said telemetry system for transmission to a ground control station; and a ground control station (GCS) comprising a digital computer programmed with control software stored on non-transitory computer memory, said software including, a loss link redundancy module to compensate for a lost telemetry link, a translation module for generating KML scripts from ADS-B Out and ADS-B In data, and a synthetic display management user-interface for providing a synthetic user-configurable three-dimensional display of said ADS-B Out and ADS-B In data on a geobrowser. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
-
-
9. An ADS-B system coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:
a Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) for compiling ownship ADS-B Out messages and for receiving air-to-air ADS-B In messages from nearby aircraft and ADS-R and TIS-B messages from ground based transceivers, said UAT comprising a digital computer programmed with control software comprising computer instructions stored on non-transitory computer memory for storing said ADS-B In messages and consolidating said ADS-B In messages with said ADS-B Out messages, a transceiver for telemetering said consolidated ADS-B Out messages in said UAS serial protocol to a ground control station; and a ground control station (GCS) comprising a digital computer programmed with control software for compensating for a lost telemetry link with UAS, said loss link software including instructions stored on non-transitory computer memory for determining when radio telemetry with said UAS has failed and automatically arbitrating to a backup redundant data source for the ADS-B data. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
-
12. An ADS-B system coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:
a Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) for compiling ownship ADS-B Out messages and for receiving air-to-air ADS-B In messages from nearby aircraft and ADS-R and TIS-B messages from ground based transceivers, said UAT further comprising a digital computer programmed with control software comprising computer instructions stored on non-transitory computer memory for storing said ADS-B In messages and consolidating said ADS-B In messages with said ADS-B Out messages, a transceiver for telemetering said consolidated ADS-B Out messages in UAS serial protocol to a ground control station; and a ground control station (GCS) comprising a digital computer programmed with control software stored on non-transitory computer having a loss link redundancy module to compensate for a lost telemetry link and a translation module for generating KML scripts from ADS-B Out and ADS-B In data. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
-
15. An ADS-B system coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:
-
a telemetry system in said unmanned aerial vehicle; a Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) for compiling ownship ADS-B Out messages and for receiving air-to-air ADS-B In messages from nearby aircraft and ADS-R and TIS-B messages from ground based transceivers, a digital computer programmed with control software comprising computer instructions stored on non-transitory computer memory for storing said ADS-B In messages and consolidating said ADS-B In messages with said ADS-B Out messages, a transceiver for telemetering said consolidated ADS-B Out messages in UAS serial protocol to a ground control station (GCS); and a ground control station (GCS) comprising a digital computer programmed with control software stored on non-transitory computer memory for receiving said ADS-B Out messages and interpreting ownship and traffic data therefrom, for converting said ownship and traffic data into a geobrowser-compatible file format, and for displaying a synthetic 2D/3D display with said ownship and traffic data wherein said display color codes nearby aircraft with specific colors dependent upon a selected nearby aircraft distance from said ownship. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
-
-
23. An ADS-B system for a manned vehicle, for increased situational awareness and self-separation assurance, comprising:
-
a Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) in said manned vehicle to receive air-to-air ADS-B In messages direct from aircraft nearby, as well as ADS-R and TIS-B messages from ground based transceivers; a portable computing device in a cockpit of said manned vehicle having software including a translation module for generating KML scripts from ADS-B Out and ADS-B In data comprising a digital computer programmed with control software stored on non-transitory computer memory, said software including a synthetic display management user-interface for providing a synthetic user-configurable three-dimensional display of said ADS-B data on a geobrowser wherein said display color codes nearby aircraft with specific colors dependent upon a selected nearby aircraft distance from said ownship; at least one UAT antenna; at least one GPS/WAAS antenna; a converter for converting said UAT serial protocol into a serial or Ethernet protocol suitable for said portable computing device. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
-
Specification