3D Flying Space Control for Boundary-Limited Aircraft Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The development of aircraft for inexperienced pilots poses safety challenges, as they may inadvertently fly into dangerous or restricted areas, and existing technologies lack effective means to ensure safe navigation within defined flight paths.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of three-dimensional (3D) flying spaces, which are virtual boundaries that an aircraft remains within, using boundary information and pilot inputs to generate control signals that prevent deviation from permitted routes, ensuring safe navigation and collision avoidance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If aircraft are developed for inexperienced pilots without extensive training, then accessibility and ease of operation are improved, but safety and risk of entering dangerous areas deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
A geographic information system (GIS) acts as an intermediary between the pilot and the flight environment, automatically processing spatial data to define safe flying corridors and generating control signals that prevent the aircraft from entering dangerous or restricted areas, thus ensuring safety without requiring extensive pilot training
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously receives location information from the aircraft, compares it against predefined safe flying corridors using GIS, and generates real-time control signals to adjust the aircraft's trajectory, providing continuous feedback to keep the aircraft within safe boundaries
2Reliability
If virtual boundaries are implemented to constrain aircraft within permitted routes, then safety and collision avoidance are improved, but flight freedom and pilot autonomy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the aircraft's trajectory by generating control signals that respond to pilot inputs while automatically modifying the flight path to remain within safe corridors, allowing the aircraft to adapt its route in real-time without completely restricting pilot control
Solution Approach 2:
The aircraft system automatically monitors its own location, compares it against safe flying corridors, and generates self-correcting control signals to maintain safe flight paths without requiring constant pilot intervention or manual boundary management
Data Source
AI summary
Boundary information for a three-dimensional (3D) flying space is obtained. An input associated with steering a vehicle is received from an input device and location information associated with the vehicle is received from a location sensor. A control signal for the vehicle is generated based at least in part on the boundary information, the input, and the location information. In the event the input would cause the vehicle to cross the boundary of the 3D flying space if obeyed, the control signal for the vehicle is generated so that the vehicle is prevented from crossing the boundary of the 3D flying space. In response to receiving an indication associated with the vehicle landing, the boundary information is modified so that the 3D flying space includes a landing pathway.