Aircraft Landing Display for Moving Platform Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional aircraft display systems fail to provide adequate and convenient landing information, especially during low visibility or when landing on a moving platform, requiring pilots to mentally adjust for the platform's motion, which increases pilot workload and reduces situational awareness.
Innovation Solution
The system integrates sensors and a processing unit to generate enhanced visual displays that superimpose landing platform information, including movement symbology, onto navigation and control information, using synthetic and enhanced vision systems to provide real-time, three-dimensional representations of the landing environment, considering energy parameters and safety margins.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional display systems provide basic landing information, then the system complexity remains low, but pilot situational awareness and workload management deteriorate during moving platform landings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple information sources (sensor data, navigation information, platform movement data) into a single integrated display. The system merges synthetic vision imagery with enhanced reality overlays showing platform movement characteristics, allowing pilots to perceive platform motion directly on the display without separate instruments or mental calculations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension to the display by showing platform movement trajectories and predicting future positions. The enhanced reality overlay incorporates time-based information about platform motion, transforming static platform position data into dynamic, time-resolved visualizations that help pilots anticipate platform movement.
2Loss of information
If the display shows detailed landing platform information, then pilot situational awareness improves, but information processing complexity and pilot workload increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different levels of information detail to different regions of the display. The enhanced reality overlay provides detailed platform movement information only in the critical landing zone area, while other portions of the display maintain standard navigation information. This localized enhancement provides necessary information without overwhelming the pilot with excessive data everywhere.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified visual copies or representations of complex platform movement data. Instead of displaying raw sensor data or requiring pilots to interpret complex movement parameters, the system generates intuitive visual overlays that replicate the essence of platform motion in an easily interpretable format.
3Measurement precision
If the system processes real-time sensor data for platform identification, then landing information accuracy improves, but system computational load and response time requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary processing of sensor data to identify platform characteristics before the critical landing phase. The system pre-processes imagery and movement data to establish baseline platform parameters, reducing the computational burden during the actual landing approach when real-time accuracy is most critical.
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AI summary
A display system for an aircraft includes a sensor configured to capture data associated with a landing platform on a movable carrier. The data includes current energy parameters of the movable carrier. The display system further includes a processing unit configured to receive the data representative of the landing platform. The processing unit is further configured to generate display commands associated with the landing platform. The display system further includes a display device coupled the processing unit for receiving the display commands and operable to render first symbology representing the landing platform.