Flight Procedure Criteria Prototyping via Dependency Tree Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) faces challenges in developing and testing new instrument flight procedure criteria, requiring a method to streamline the design process, reduce complexity, and facilitate rapid prototyping while ensuring safety and precision, especially with modern aircraft capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A flight procedure criteria prototyping system and method that generates a prototype, creates a dependency tree, translates it into construction steps, and produces software specifications, allowing for automated testing and analysis of criteria, thereby simplifying the design process and ensuring compliance with safety requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional manual methods are used for developing flight procedure criteria, then comprehensive analysis and safety evaluation can be performed, but the design process is time-consuming and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a prototype model that replicates the essential characteristics of flight procedure criteria, allowing virtual testing and evaluation without requiring full-scale implementation. This prototype copying approach enables comprehensive safety analysis while dramatically reducing the time and resources needed for the design process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary automated analysis and validation of flight procedure criteria before final implementation. By conducting initial safety evaluations and dependency checks in advance, the system identifies potential issues early in the design phase, reducing iterative revisions and accelerating the overall development process.
2Manufacturing precision
If detailed criteria analysis is performed manually, then comprehensive validation can be achieved, but the workload and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated self-validation mechanisms that independently check criteria consistency, dependency relationships, and compliance with aviation standards. This self-service approach maintains high validation precision while eliminating the need for extensive manual analysis, thereby reducing overall process complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary prototype layer that mediates between high-level criteria specifications and detailed validation requirements. This intermediary representation simplifies the validation process by providing a structured, automated-checkable format while preserving the precision needed for comprehensive safety evaluation.
3Productivity
If new criteria are developed without prototyping, then development speed may be faster, but implementation errors and redesign costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary automated testing and validation of new criteria through prototype evaluation before final implementation. This advance verification identifies potential implementation errors early, ensuring higher reliability while maintaining rapid development cycles through automation.
Solution Approach 2:
By creating and testing virtual prototypes of new criteria, the system enables safe experimentation and validation without affecting actual flight operations. This copying approach allows rapid iteration and error correction in the virtual domain, improving implementation reliability while preserving development speed.
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AI summary
A flight procedure criteria prototyping system and method is described herein. According to embodiments, the system is configured to generate a prototype, generate a dependency tree based on the prototype, wherein the dependency tree is comprised of one or more dependency tree nodes, translate the dependency tree into one or more construction steps, wherein there is a mapping between the one or more dependency tree nodes and the one or more construction steps, maintain an ordered list of the one or more construction steps, and generate one or more software specifications based on the one or more construction steps.