Method for coupling flight plan and flight path using ADS-B information

• US 10,037,703 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2014
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Aerospace Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Korea Aerospace Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Hyoun Kyoung, Jeon, Dae Keun
• Primary Examiner(s): Swarthout, Brent
• Application Number:
  US15/531,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20170330465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,341 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0013 with a ground station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0026 located on the ground
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/003 Flight plan management
• 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 5/0082 for monitoring traffic from a ground station radar or analogous systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for coupling a flight plan and a flight path using ADS-B information, and more specifically to a method for coupling a flight plan and a flight path, wherein a flight data processing unit of an air traffic control system or an arrival management system separately and directly receives ADS-B information such that the received ADS-B information can be used for coupling a flight plan and a flight path of an aircraft.

Claims

1. A method for coupling a flight plan and a flight path using automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) information in an air traffic control system for controlling traffic of an aircraft by including a surveillance data processing unit providing a system track that is a data estimating a position and a speed of the aircraft, a flight data processing unit processing and managing data related to the flight plan, and a display unit providing a control screen to an air traffic controller, the method comprising:

a) receiving, by the surveillance data processing unit, radar information and the ADS-B information (ADS-B track or ADS-B plot) and fusing the two information to generate the system track including a secondary surveillance radar (SSR) code;

b) receiving, by the flight data processing unit, the system track from the surveillance data processing unit and receiving the ADS-B information (ADS-B track or ADS-B plot) separately from the surveillance data processing unit to couple the flight path of the aircraft included in the system track and the ADS-B information and the pre-stored flight plan; and

c) receiving, by the display unit, the system track and the flight plan to display a current flight state,

wherein the step b) includes;

b-1) coupling the flight plan with the system track using the SSR code of the system track (flight plan-system track), if the flight data processing unit receives the system track generated in the surveillance data processing unit;

b-2) coupling the flight plan with the ADS-B track using the SSR code or Callsign of the ADS-B track (flight plan-ADS-B track), if the flight data processing unit receives the ADS-B track separately from the surveillance data processing unit;

b-3) coupling the flight plan with the ADS-B plot using Callsign of the ADS-B plot (flight plan-ADS-B plot), if the flight data processing unit receives the ADS-B plot separately from the surveillance data processing unit; and

b-4) periodically determining, by the flight data processing unit, whether there is the flight path corresponding to the flight plan for each aircraft, the flight path being included in at least one selected from the system track including the SSR code, the ADS-B track, and the ADS-B plot, and maintaining the coupling between the flight plan and the flight path if there is the flight path matching the flight path of the steps b-1 to b-3.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step b), the flight data processing unit determines the number of aircrafts to be one when any one or more information is matched, the any one or more information being selected from a track number of the system track, a track number of the ADS-B track, the Callsign of the ADS-B plot or the ADS-B track, and 24-bit ICAO Address.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein in step c), the display unit receives the ADS-B information separately from the surveillance data processing unit and further includes the received ADS-B information in the system track and the flight plan to display the current flight state.

4. A method for coupling a flight plan and a flight path using ADS-B information in an arrival management system performing scheduling of aircrafts so that the aircrafts arrive at a certain point within a flight information region (FIR) at regular intervals, the method comprising:

1) receiving, by a surveillance data processing unit, radar information and the ADS-B information and fusing the two information to generate a system track;

2) receiving, by an arrival management system, the system track from the surveillance data processing unit and receiving the flight plan from the flight data processing unit;

3) receiving, by the arrival management system, the ADS-B information separately from the surveillance data processing unit and coupling the flight path including the received ADS-B information and the received system track with the received flight plan; and

4) generating the flight path of the aircraft using the coupled flight plan and flight path to schedule an arrival interval between the aircrafts,

wherein in the step

     3), the ADS-B information is received before an SSR code is issued and Callsign included in the ADS-B information is used to couple between the flight plan and the flight path.