Dynamic Airspace Controller for UAV and eVTOL Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current air traffic control infrastructure is inadequate for managing diverse aircraft types, such as UAVs, air taxis, and delivery aircraft, leading to challenges in managing controlled airspace and obtaining flight approvals, making it time-consuming, costly, and difficult to ensure compliance with varying regulations.
Innovation Solution
The development of an airspace controller system that creates dynamic airspace for each user based on their specific aircraft and flight information, customizing airspace restrictions, obtaining necessary approvals, and providing a unified view through a graphical user interface and API for monitoring and controlling flights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If static controlled airspace maps are used to present airspace restrictions, then comprehensive airspace coverage is provided, but the system becomes difficult to read, difficult to find relevant information, and difficult to use during flight
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static controlled airspace maps into dynamic, interactive digital maps that can be customized in real-time. The system allows users to filter, zoom, and interact with airspace layers digitally, making relevant information easily accessible during flight operations while maintaining comprehensive airspace coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to customize different layers and views of airspace information based on specific flight needs and aircraft types. Relevant airspace restrictions can be highlighted or filtered locally, allowing pilots to focus on pertinent information without being overwhelmed by comprehensive but unwieldy static maps.
2Loss of information
If users manually manage flight information separately from controlled airspace maps, then complete flight data can be maintained, but the process becomes time-consuming and requires manual correlation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates flight information management directly within the controlled airspace map system. Flight plans, approvals, and airspace restrictions are correlated automatically through the digital platform, eliminating the need for separate manual management and correlation processes while maintaining complete flight data.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides automatic feedback and correlation between flight information and airspace restrictions. The digital platform continuously updates and cross-references flight data with current airspace conditions, reducing manual intervention time while ensuring information completeness and accuracy.
3Stability of the object's composition
If existing air traffic control infrastructure is used to accommodate diverse aircraft types, then current systems remain unchanged, but managing controlled airspace and approvals becomes increasingly challenging, time-consuming, and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal digital airspace management platform that can accommodate multiple aircraft types (UAVs, air taxis, delivery aircraft, traditional aircraft) through a single integrated system. The platform provides multi-functional capabilities including flight planning, approval management, real-time tracking, and regulatory compliance, replacing multiple specialized systems with one versatile infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces traditional manual and paper-based air traffic control processes with automated digital infrastructure. Electronic flight plans, digital approvals, and automated compliance checking substitute for manual paperwork and human correlation processes, significantly improving productivity while maintaining infrastructure stability through incremental digital transformation.
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AI summary
Provided is an airspace controller for creating and managing dynamic airspace for different users. The airspace controller may produce different dynamic airspace for each user by continually updating static controlled airspace maps with user-specific flight information including user-planned flights, authorization status of the user's flights, waivers, controlled airspace restrictions, and real-time flight telemetry. The airspace controller may generate a static airspace map for all users with different airspace user interface (“UI”) elements at different regions that correspond to different airspace restrictions in effect at those regions. The airspace controller may create dynamic airspace for each user by modifying the static airspace map to include flight UE elements over regions of the static airspace map where user-defined flights are to occur. The flight UE element may include shapes that correspond to flight areas defined for a flight plan, and one of several graphical representations to identify authorization status of the flight.