46 results about "Airline operations" patented technology

A tailored arrival allocation system (TAAS) for determining a descent profile for an aircraft is described. TAAS includes a gateway operable for establishing communications between TAAS and aircraft, and for establishing communications between TAAS and at least one of a source of weather data, an air traffic services facility, and an airlines operations center. A processing device communicatively coupled to the gateway calculates a descent profile based on data received from a plurality of an air traffic services coordination function, an airline operations center function, data from the aircraft, and data received from a weather station that allows the aircraft to meet the required time at one or more metering fixes during the descent. Output interfaces provide data relating to the calculated descent profile to the processing device. The gateway communicates with a flight management computer for the aircraft to incorporate the calculated descent profile onto the flight management computer.

A method for providing an airline a global view of asset management is described. The method includes receiving data relating to aircraft positions from at least one data source, receiving data relating to flight and maintenance schedules for the aircraft from at least one other data source, correlating the received data in accordance with one or more business rules, interpreting the correlated data to determine potential impacts to assets and resources from an airline system perspective, and presenting the interpretation of the correlated data in a single format to a user.

This invention relates to a method for implementing the air traffic service unit (ATSU) managing the links between certain aircraft equipment and the ground / board communication means, and its operating system (OS) managing input / output, the use of software and hardware resources, chaining and timing of applications that are programs carrying out aircraft system functionalities, and wherein memory partitioning mechanisms and CPU partitioning mechanisms are used; wherein operating system calls are filtered so as to prevent said AOC (Airline Operational Communication) type applications from distributing the operation of said air traffic service unit.

A system and method for making a decision of whether to carry additional fuel on an aircraft for a particular flight based on a forecast, such as for low visibility and ceiling. Preferably, observations-based probabilistic forecasts are utilized. The forecast probability of the weather at the planned aerodrome being below a prescribed minimum level is calculated using statistical regression analysis of past data. An optimal probability is estimated using cost parameters on an individual flight bases. If this forecast probability is greater than the optimal probability for a particular flight, then extra fuel is carried by that flight. This is in contrast to current practice whereby the same categorical forecast is applied to all flights. The combination of improved short-term forecasts and identification of optimal forecast probabilities minimizes the financial impact of errors and weather forecasts on airline operations thereby providing a superior financial outcome.

A method for providing an airline a global view of resource management is described. The method includes receiving data relating to aircraft positions from at least one data source, receiving data relating to flight and maintenance schedules for the aircraft from at least one other data source, correlating the received data in accordance with one or more business rules, interpreting the correlated data to determine potential impacts to resources from an airline system perspective, and presenting the interpretation of the correlated data in a single format to a user.

The invention relates to a non-linear navigation tracking control method for an unmanned aerial vehicle. A fixed navigation control period is adopted, and a navigation angle is obtained according to four different flying states of the unmanned aerial vehicle and deviation conditions thereof, thus the non-linear navigation tracking control is carried out on the unmanned aerial vehicle according to the navigation angle so as to ensure that the unmanned aerial vehicle can obtain appropriate navigation angles according to the characteristics of different air lines and the degree of current deviated air line when different air line flight missions are carried out, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle can realize airline operation better, the accuracy degree for the navigation control of the unmanned aerial vehicle is improved, and the flight speed v of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be dynamically adjusted by adjusting related parameters in the navigation tracking control; therefore, the problem that PID parameters cannot be adjusted dynamically in the prior art is overcome, and the flexibility for the navigation tracking control on the unmanned aerial vehicle is improved.

An airline operations system, controller and method reschedules flights affected by a disruption that precludes a planned schedule for the flights. The method includes obtaining data related to a scheduled origination and a scheduled destination for each of a set of passengers scheduled on the flights, generating a passenger connection network of connections between the scheduled origination and the scheduled destination for a subset of the set of passengers, applying at least one criterion to the passenger connection network and rescheduling at least one connecting flight based on the criteria. The system and controller solves a network flow problem to reschedule a subset of connecting flights to have a delayed projected departure time. Resulting output can include the set of delayed flights along with modified projected departure times, a set of flight cancellations and a set of passengers with missed connections.

An airline operations control system for an airline having multiple aircraft and multiple routes formed by one or more flights where the airline operations control system includes a computer searchable database a query module configured to query the database and a prognostic module.

Open Pairings occurring during airline operations are repaired n at a time (where n is an integer) in near real time through use of two solution paths, one involving one-way fixes, and the other matching transformations. From the resulting multiple solutions, one is selected which is of least cost to the airline.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle flying leg switching method based on a leg distance and a relative location vector dot product. The unmanned aerial vehicle achieves the whole airline operation through switching of legs. A leg distance at the moment can be obtained according to a distance to go and a lateral deflection distance calculated in real time by a flight control computer. When a global position system (GPS) signal is normal during the whole journey, the leg switching method based on the leg distance is adopted. When the GPS signal is not effective, no leg switching is carried out. After the GPS signals are recovered, according to current position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and start point / finish point of the leg, the relative position vector dot product is calculated, the vector dot product and the calculated leg distance form a composite judging condition, and therefore the correct switching of the aerial leg of the unmanned aerial vehicle of all situations is achieved.

Methods and systems are provided for managing maintenance activities of an aircraft using a wearable device. In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, at the wearable device, part data from at least one of a video recording device and an audio recording device of the wearable device; communicating by the wearable device with at least one of an onboard avionics system, an airline operations system, and an inventory management system based on the part data; and presenting maintenance information to a user via at least one of a display system, and an audio system of the wearable device based on the communicating.

The invention discloses an air traffic control flight path big data-based airlines operation situation law analysis method, and belongs to the field of air traffic management data processing analysisand other data analysis. The method is capable of realizing a processing analysis method for completing airlines operation situation law analysis on the basis of air traffic control flight path big data, and creatively puts forward a way for completing data preparation through air traffic control flight path data acquisition and pretreatment ways by utilizing a big data way. According to the method, the mining analysis of air traffic control flight path data is realized on the basis of a machine learning algorithm, a distributed calculation processing manner and an improved K-means clusteringalgorithm, and theoretical and practical foundations are provided for the researches of airlines operation performance analysis and airlines trajectory prediction.

An aircraft ground support unit (1) for supplying a service to an aircraft (3) on the ground according to a specific servicing program is provided that includesreception means (5) suitable for identifying an aircraft (3) in motion or parked on the ground by receiving information emitted by a transponder (7) of said aircraft including an instantaneous GPS coordinates of the position of the aircraft, the identity of the aircraft, the type of aircraft, and the company of the aircraft, aircraft status data.A microprocessor is provided that is suitable for selecting and implementing a predefined servicing program stored in a database corresponding to the type and company of the thus identified aircraft (3) on the basis of the information received by the reception means.A data record device is also provided that is to store the events, aircraft status data, ground unit data for airlines operation optimization.

The invention relates to an aircraft fuel consumption calculation method based on ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) flight track data. The method comprises the steps of acquiring datainformation, and storing the data information in a database; and dividing an airline operation into two stages through flight time information and height information of an ADS-B flight track record point: LTO (Landing and Take-Off) stage and CCD stage; determining a fuel flow rate of each stage according to the data information; calculating the fuel consumption of the LTO stage according to the fuel flow rate of the LTO stage; calculating the fuel consumption of the CCD stage according to the fuel flow rate of the CCD stage; and calculating the fuel consumption TF of the whole operational process of the flight according to the fuel flow rates of the LTO stage and the CCD stage. With the aircraft fuel consumption calculation method based on the flight track data, the total fuel consumptionof the complete operational process of the flight can be calculated, the fuel consumption in each stage can be calculated according to the stage division so as to facilitate the staged analysis and statistical needs.

The invention relates to a system and a method for controlling operation of an airline. An airline operations control system (30) for an airline having multiple aircraft and multiple routes formed by one or more flights where the airline operations control system (30) includes a computer searchable database (32), a query module (34) configured to query the database (32) and a display module (36) and a method for controlling operation of the airline having the multiple aircraft and the multiple routes.

The invention provides a flight piloting system used in civil airplanes or other airplanes whose cockpits need to be manually operated. The flight piloting system can assist main captain pilot or replace a copilot to operate airplane piloting so as to realize more automatic flight; in the civil aviation field, the number of pilots in a flight crew is reduced, the operation cost of an airline company is reduced, the airline company can obtain abnormal operations which are performed by the pilots under irrational and unreasonable situations in time so that the airline company can master the state of the airplane in time; and therefore, the operation safety of the airline company is enhanced.

The invention provides a method for quantitatively evaluating influence of airspace allocation on the air traffic accessibility. The accessibility of air traffic highly influences the operation benefit of an airline company, and a method for building a quantitative relationship between the airspace allocation and the air traffic accessibility is proposed to indirectly evaluate the influence of the airspace allocation on the operation benefit of the airline company. The method is that the traffic demand and an airspace allocation scheme are treated as the input; the airspace subareas are treated as the boundary, the air traffic demand is abstracted into statistical flow based on a quenching network model framework, a multi-service-desk sequencing model is correspondingly provided for each section and an air corridor, and the sections and the air corridors are connected by an end-to-end manner to form a full-airspace sequencing network model; the sequencing system simulation method is performed to count the airport based accessibility and passenger strip accessibility. The method is suitably used for evaluating the influence of the airspace allocation on the air traffic accessibility.

The invention provides a system and a method for rule-based analytics or temporal-spatial constraints. A method, medium, and system to receive actual flight schedule data, including flight details associated with each flight of the actual flight schedule; determine an estimate of at least one of airline operations performance constraints and metrics based on the actual flight schedule data and at least one of business rules and an execution of a simulation-based model; and generate a record of corrected actual flight data based on the estimate of at least one of airline operations performance constraints and metrics and the actual flight data.

An airline operations control system for an airline having multiple aircraft and multiple routes formed by one or more flights where the airline operations control system includes a computer searchable database a query module configured to query the database and a display module and a method of controlling operation of the airline having the multiple aircraft and the multiple routes.

The invention discloses an air fine forecast-based flight dynamic monitoring system. The system comprises a monitoring module, an air field forecast module, a data fusion module, a communication data chain module and display equipment, wherein the monitoring module is used for acquiring aircraft position information according to GPS and / or Beidou 3, the air field forecast module is used for reconstructing air field information on an air route according to ADS-B IN and inverting airport air field information according to airport Doppler radar to obtain air field fine forecast, the data fusion module is used for fusing the aircraft position information and the air field forecast information, and the communication data chain module is used for sending the fused aircraft position information and the air field refine forecast information to the display equipment by ADS-B, ACARS and / or the Beidou 3. The system can provide fine air field forecast service for an airline operation control center, the operation risk control capability of airlines is improved, and the flight dynamic monitoring efficiency and the service quality are improved.

An aspect of the present disclosure provides guidance for recovery from disruptions in airline operations. In one embodiment, a disruption data specifying the details of disruptions in airline operations and a corresponding set of tasks performed for recovery for each disruption is maintained. In response to receiving an input data indicating details of a new disruption, an earlier disruption that is closest to the new disruption is identified based on the input data and the disruption data. For example, a statistical distance between the new disruption and each of the maintained disruptions may be computed, with the disruption having the shortest statistical distance being selected as the earlier disruption. The corresponding set of tasks performed for recovery from the earlier disruption is provided as recommendation for recovery from the new disruption.