Avionic Earth Station for Automated Malfunction Elimination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current avionic aviation systems lack the capability for fully automated and efficient elimination of operating malfunctions in aircraft, due to technical complexity, unpredictable behavior, and non-linear environmental influences, which often require human intervention and result in unstable automation and increased error liability.

Innovation Solution

An avionic aviation system with an earth station connected via a wireless interface, utilizing detection devices and a switching device to activate malfunction intervention devices dynamically, with a Techlog stack memory and filter module to determine memory threshold values and activate intervention devices automatically, allowing for real-time adaptation and self-adaptation without human interaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If human intervention is used to eliminate operating malfunctions, then the system can handle complex and unpredictable situations, but the reaction speed decreases and error liability increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveerror liabilityVSAvoidreaction speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated malfunction elimination through self-service mechanisms where the aviation system automatically detects, analyzes, and responds to operating malfunctions without human intervention. The switching device activates intervention devices based on automated analysis of measured parameters, allowing the system to serve itself in eliminating malfunctions while maintaining high reaction speed and reduced error liability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Speed

If automation is implemented to eliminate operating malfunctions, then reaction speed improves, but the system becomes unstable due to technical complexity and unpredictable behavior

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereaction speedVSAvoidautomation stability
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously measuring operating parameters through sensors, comparing them against expected values, and automatically adjusting system behavior through the switching device. This closed-loop feedback ensures stable automation by constantly monitoring system state and making corrective activations of intervention devices based on actual measured conditions rather than predetermined rigid sequences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs dynamic adaptation by adjusting the threshold values for activating intervention devices based on current operating conditions. The switching device dynamically determines when to activate malfunction elimination measures by evaluating measured parameters against adaptively set thresholds, allowing the automation to remain stable across varying operational contexts while maintaining fast reaction times.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If the system captures and processes large quantities of measured parameters, then measurement precision improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveparameter detection accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and focuses only on the most critical measured parameters relevant to malfunction detection and elimination. Rather than processing all available data equally, the switching device identifies and acts upon key parameters that indicate operating malfunctions, reducing the effective complexity of data processing while maintaining high measurement precision for the most important indicators through dedicated sensors and analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS8244414B2Avionic aviation system with an earth station for automatically eliminating operating malfunctions occurring in airplanes, and corresponding method
Publication Date: 2012.08.14 SWISS REINSURANCE CO LTD
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AI summary

An avionic aviation system, and a corresponding method, with an earth station for automatically eliminating operating malfunctions occurring in airplanes. The avionic aviation system is connected to a plurality of airplanes via a wireless interface of the avionics. If, by sensor, an operating malfunction is detected on an airplane, a dedicated operating malfunction usage device is selected to automatically eliminate the malfunction by a filter module, and a switching device of the earth station is specifically enabled to activate the operating malfunction usage device.