Movement-measurement-processing system, movement-measurement-processing method, and movement-measurement-processing program

• US 9,530,317 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2013
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Teramoto, Sachio, Kida, Koji, Tagato, Hiroki, Ando, Tomohito
• Primary Examiner(s): WONG, YUEN H
• Application Number:
  US14/394,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20150073690A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,317 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/002 Taxiing aids
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0017 Arrangements for implementing traffic-related aircraft activities, e.g. arrangements for generating, displaying, acquiring or managing traffic information head-up displays G02B27/01; ground or aircraft-carrier-deck-installations B64F
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0043 Traffic management of multiple aircrafts from the ground G08G5/003 takes precedence; data processing specially designed for resource management, e.g. scheduling or allocating time, human or machine resources G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/045 Navigation or guidance aids, e.g. determination of anti-collision manoeuvers radar or analogous systems specially adapted for anti-collision between aircraft G01S13/933

Abstract

A peripheral aircraft selection means maps a region in a 3D space defined by a start point of period information of the aircraft of interest, a point having the coordinate values of passage position coordinates at an end point of the period information and a lower limit arrival time, and a point having the coordinate values of passage position coordinates at the end point of the period information and an upper limit arrival time onto a 2D plane by use of a first projection matrix. The peripheral aircraft selection means then selects a peripheral aircraft which can abnormally near to the aircraft of interest by determining how the resultant region crosses with a circle whose center is a passage position of the peripheral aircraft and whose radius is a determination standard threshold as to whether abnormal nearing will occur.

Claims

1. A movement-measurement-processing system comprising:

a period information creation unit, including a processor, for creating a set of period information each having a 3D coordinate with coordinate values of 2D coordinates of a passage position of a moving body and passage time of the moving body as information on a start point and an end point from a movement plan of an aircraft of interest which is a moving body for which the movement plan is to be adjusted and a movement plan of each peripheral aircraft which is a moving body other than the aircraft of interest;

an arrival time calculation unit, including the processor, for calculating a lower limit arrival time which is an end point arrival time when the aircraft of interest moves at an upper limit speed and an upper limit arrival time which is an end point arrival time when the aircraft of interest moves at a lower limit speed for each item of period information of the aircraft of interest;

a projection matrix calculation unit, including the processor, for calculating a first projection matrix indicating mapping from a 3D space onto a 2D plane based on a period information pair having one item of period information of the aircraft of interest and one item of period information of a peripheral aircraft; and

a peripheral aircraft selection unit, including the processor, for selecting a peripheral aircraft which is abnormally near to the aircraft of interest by determining how a region obtained by mapping the region in the 3D space defined by a start point of period information of the aircraft of interest, a point having the coordinate values of passage position coordinates at an end point of the period information and the lower limit arrival time, and a point having the coordinate values of the passage position coordinates at the end point of the period information and the upper limit arrival time into the 2D plane by use of the first projection matrix crosses with a circle whose center is a passage position of the peripheral aircraft and whose radius is a determination standard threshold as to whether abnormal nearing will occur,

wherein a speed of the movement plan of the aircraft of interest is adjusted, by the processor, based on a movement plan of interest of the selected peripheral aircraft and the adjusted movement plan of the aircraft of interest in order to avoid a collision between the aircraft of interest and the selected peripheral aircraft.

2. A movement-measurement-processing method comprising steps of:

creating, by a processor, a set of period information each having a 3D coordinate with coordinate values of 2D coordinates of a passage position of a moving body and passage time of the moving body as information on a start point and an end point from a movement plan of an aircraft of interest which is a moving body for which the movement plan is to be adjusted and a movement plan of each peripheral aircraft which is a moving body other than the aircraft of interest;

calculating, by the processor, a lower limit arrival time which is an end point arrival time when the aircraft of interest moves at an upper limit speed and an upper limit arrival time which is an end point arrival time when the aircraft of interest moves at a lower limit speed for each item of period information of the aircraft of interest;

calculating, by the processor, a first projection matrix indicating mapping from a 3D space onto a 2D plane based on a period information pair having one item of period information of the aircraft of interest and one item of period information of a peripheral aircraft; and

selecting, by the processor, a peripheral aircraft which is abnormally near to the aircraft of interest by determining how a region obtained by mapping the region in the 3D space defined by a start point of period information of the aircraft of interest, a point having the coordinate values of passage position coordinates at an end point of the period information and the lower limit arrival time, and a point having the coordinate values of the passage position coordinates at the end point of the period information and the upper limit arrival time into the 2D plane by use of the first projection matrix crosses with a circle whose center is a passage position of the peripheral aircraft and whose radius is a determination standard threshold as to whether abnormal nearing will occur,

wherein a speed of the movement plan of the aircraft of interest is adjusted, by the processor, based on a movement plan of interest of the selected peripheral aircraft and the adjusted movement plan of the aircraft of interest in order to avoid a collision between the aircraft of interest and the selected peripheral aircraft.

3. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium containing instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

period information creation processing of creating a set of period information each having a 3D coordinate with coordinate values of 2D coordinates of a passage position of a moving body and passage time of the moving body as information on a start point and an end point from a movement plan of an aircraft of interest which is a moving body for which the movement plan is to be adjusted and a movement plan of each peripheral aircraft which is a moving body other than the aircraft of interest;

arrival time calculation processing of calculating a lower limit arrival time which is an end point arrival time when the aircraft of interest moves at an upper limit speed and an upper limit arrival time which is an end point arrival time when the aircraft of interest moves at a lower limit speed for each item of period information of the aircraft of interest;

projection matrix calculation processing of calculating a first projection matrix indicating mapping from a 3D space onto a 2D plane based on a period information pair having one item of period information of the aircraft of interest and one item of period information of a peripheral aircraft; and

peripheral aircraft selection processing of selecting a peripheral aircraft which is abnormally near to the aircraft of interest by determining how a region obtained by mapping the region in the 3D space defined by a start point of period information of the aircraft of interest, a point having the coordinate values of passage position coordinates at an end point of the period information and the lower limit arrival time, and a point having the coordinate values of the passage position coordinates at the end point of the period information and the upper limit arrival time into the 2D plane by use of the first projection matrix crosses with a circle whose center is a passage position of the peripheral aircraft and whose radius is a determination standard threshold as to whether abnormal nearing will occur,

wherein a speed of the movement plan of the aircraft of interest is adjusted, by the processor, based on a movement plan of interest of the selected peripheral aircraft and the adjusted movement plan of the aircraft of interest in order to avoid a collision between the aircraft of interest and the selected peripheral aircraft.