Flight Control System for Emergency Landing Candidate Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques for aircraft flight control do not enable an aircraft to continuously prepare for and safely land at a candidate point in case of an abnormality during flight, as they only determine a safe flight approach route without ensuring a landing point is available.
Innovation Solution
A flight controlling apparatus and method that includes an information acquiring unit, a point searching unit, and a route changing unit to continuously search for and select landing candidate points based on ground factors influencing safety, and adjust the flight route if no suitable point is found, ensuring a safe landing point is available for potential abnormalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the aircraft follows a predetermined flight route, then the flight operation is simple and efficient, but the aircraft cannot ensure a safe landing point is available when abnormality occurs during flight
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously searching for and determining safe landing candidate points before actual emergency occurs. The flight route is adjusted in advance to ensure landing candidates are within reachable distance, so when abnormality occurs, the aircraft is already positioned with available safe landing options.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the aircraft's position relative to determined landing candidate points and ground factors. When the aircraft moves away from areas with safe landing candidates, the system automatically adjusts the flight route to return to regions with available landing options, creating a closed-loop safety assurance mechanism.
2Reliability
If the aircraft continuously adjusts flight route to maintain landing candidate points, then emergency landing safety is improved, but the flight operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flight control system performs self-service by autonomously determining safe landing candidate points based on ground factor information, automatically adjusting the flight route to maintain these candidates within reachable distance, and executing route changes without pilot intervention. The system serves itself to ensure safety while maintaining operational simplicity for the pilot.
3Reliability
If the aircraft searches for landing candidate points based on ground factors, then the safety of emergency landing is improved, but the time required for route determination increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary determination of safe landing candidate points based on ground factor information before emergency occurs. By pre-identifying and marking safe landing areas along the flight path, the system eliminates the need for time-consuming searches during actual emergencies, as candidate points are already determined and ready for immediate use.
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AI summary
A flight controlling apparatus includes an information acquiring unit, a point searching unit, a determining unit, and a route changing unit. The information acquiring unit acquires location information of a factor on a ground that possibly influences safety of an aircraft in landing. The point searching unit searches for one or more landing candidate points to prepare for an expected abnormality in the aircraft in flight, on the basis of the location information. The determining unit determines whether the one or more landing candidate points are selected to prepare for the expected abnormality. The route changing unit changes a flight route of the aircraft to cause the one or more landing candidate points to be obtained to prepare for the expected abnormality in a case where the determining unit determines that no landing candidate point is selected to prepare for the expected abnormality.