METHOD FOR MONITORING AIRSPACE

• US 20170025023A1
• Filed: 04/08/2015
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Technische Universitat Dortmund
• Original Assignee: Technische Universitat Dortmund
• Inventors: GODDEMEIER, NIKLAS, ROHDE, SEBASTIAN, WIETFELD, CHRISTIAN
• Granted Patent: US 10,325,506 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0013 with a ground station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0026 located on the ground
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0082 for monitoring traffic from a ground station radar or analogous systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0095 Aspects of air-traffic control not provided for in the other subgroups of this main group

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for monitoring an airspace, comprising a first control and detection system (100) and a second control and detection system (200). The first control and detection system (100) has a first flying device (110) and a first control and detection unit (120), and the second control and detection system (200) has a second flying device (210) and a second control and detection unit (220). According to the invention, an airspace monitoring system (300) which is different from the first control and detection unit (120) and the second control and detection unit (220) is provided; first data (130) relating to the first flying device (110) is transmitted from the first control and detection unit (120) to the airspace monitoring system (300), and data (310) based on the first data (130) is transmitted from the airspace monitoring system (300) to the second control and detection unit (210). In this manner, a method is provided which allows a system-independent airspace monitoring process.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring airspace, having a first control and detection system (100) and a second control and detection system (200), wherein

the first control and detection system (100) has a first aircraft (110) and a first control and detection unit (120), and the second control and detection system (200) has a second aircraft (210) and a second control and detection unit (220), characterized in that

an airspace monitoring system (300) which is different from the first control and detection unit (120) and also from the second control and detection unit (220) is provided,

first data (130) relating to the first aircraft (110) is transmitted to the airspace monitoring system (300) by the first control and detection unit (120), and

data (310) which is based on the first data (130) is sent to the second control and detection unit (220) by the airspace monitoring system (300), and the data (310) is transmitted to the second aircraft (210) by the second control and detection unit (220).

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the first data (130) which is transmitted to the airspace monitoring system (300) and/or the data (310) which is sent to the second control and detection unit (220) by the airspace monitoring system (300) is transformed in the airspace monitoring system (300).

3. The method as claimed in either of claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the first data (130) which is transmitted to the airspace monitoring system (300) and/or the data (310) which is sent to the second control and detection unit (220) by the airspace monitoring system (300) is stored in the airspace monitoring system (300).

4. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the first aircraft (110) is identified by the airspace monitoring system (300).

5. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the first data (130) which is transmitted to the airspace monitoring system (300) and/or the data (310) which is sent to the second control and detection unit (220) by the airspace monitoring system (300) is encrypted.

6. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the first data (130) which is transmitted to the airspace monitoring system (300) and/or the data (310) which is sent to the second control and detection unit by the airspace monitoring system (300) is digitally signed.

7. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that, based on the first data (130), a region of the airspace on the flight route of the first aircraft (110) in the airspace monitoring system (300) is reserved for the first aircraft (110) for a period of time.

8. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that, based on the first data (130) for the first aircraft (110), ascent permission for the first aircraft (110) is applied for and received by means of the airspace monitoring system (300).

9. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the first aircraft (110) is an unmanned aircraft and the unmanned aircraft has a continuous connection to the first control and detection unit (120) and, when the continuous connection is interrupted, first data (130) relating to the interruption in connection is transmitted to the airspace monitoring system (300) by the first control and detection unit (120), and data (310) is sent to the second control and detection system (220) by the airspace monitoring system (300) based on the first data (130) relating to the interruption in connection.

10. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that second data (230) relating to the second aircraft (210) is transmitted to the airspace monitoring system (300) by the second control and detection unit (220).

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that data (310), which is based on the second data (230), is sent to the first control and detection unit (120) by the airspace monitoring system (300).