Autoland Recovery Interface for Pilot Situational Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Pilots may become incapacitated during automated aircraft operations, leading to disorientation upon resuming manual control due to lack of situational awareness of the aircraft's state changes during automated functionality.
Innovation Solution
An automation summary graphical user interface (GUI) display is generated to provide a time-ordered sequence of vehicle status data recorded during automated functionality, including events and state changes, to enhance situational awareness upon deactivation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automated functionality is activated to operate the aircraft, then pilot workload and stress are reduced, but pilot situational awareness of aircraft state changes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary recording of aircraft state changes during automated operation. The automation summary display is prepared in advance by continuously capturing and storing state change data, so that when the pilot needs to resume manual control, the information is already organized and ready for immediate presentation, eliminating the need for the pilot to track changes manually during automation.
2Reliability
If automated functionality operates the aircraft during pilot incapacity, then aircraft operation continues safely, but pilot ability to resume control deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to the pilot about aircraft state changes that occurred during automated operation. The automation summary display presents recorded state changes in a comprehensible format, giving the pilot feedback about what the automated system did, which helps the pilot understand the current aircraft state and resume control more effectively.
3Loss of information
If comprehensive vehicle status data is recorded during automated operation, then situational awareness upon resumption is improved, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the relevant state change data from the comprehensive vehicle status data during automated operation. Rather than presenting all recorded data, the system identifies and extracts meaningful state changes (such as significant parameter changes or critical events) and presents them in the automation summary display, reducing data processing complexity while maintaining situational awareness.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle in response to deactivation of an automated functionality. One method involves automatically recording, in response to activation of the automated functionality, vehicle status data from one or more systems onboard the vehicle during operation of the vehicle in accordance with the automated functionality in a time ordered sequence and automatically generating an automation summary graphical user interface (GUI) display comprising the time ordered sequence of the vehicle status data in response to deactivation of the automated functionality.