Onboard Computer Script for Automated Passenger Deplaning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic systems fail to efficiently manage passenger boarding and deplaning processes, leading to delays and passenger dissatisfaction due to lack of automation and adherence to social distancing guidelines, especially in the context of aircraft operations.
Innovation Solution
A script-based method executed by an onboard computer that controls the order of passenger deplaning, utilizing inputs such as passenger information, travel configuration, and crew inputs to prompt passengers through electronic equipment like seatback screens, personal devices, and overhead lights, ensuring orderly and safe deplaning while considering health protocols and social distancing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional manual coordination methods are used for passenger boarding and deplaning, then ground staff and aircraft crew can manage the process, but delays occur and passenger dissatisfaction increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables passengers to self-manage their deplaning process through automated notifications sent to personal devices, eliminating the need for continuous manual coordination by ground staff and crew. Passengers receive real-time updates and can proceed independently according to the optimized sequence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical coordination processes with an automated electronic notification system that uses computer-generated sequences and digital communications to manage passenger flow, substituting human-to-human coordination with machine-to-human automated guidance.
2Productivity
If automated script-based control is implemented for passenger deplaning, then efficiency and order are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The onboard computer system performs multiple functions: it stores passenger information, generates optimized deplaning sequences, sends notifications to personal devices, and coordinates with ground staff. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate specialized systems into a single versatile platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-calculates and stores optimized deplaning sequences before the actual deplaning process begins. Passenger information is loaded and processed in advance, allowing the system to generate the optimal notification sequence without real-time computational delays during the actual deplaning operation.
3Ease of operation
If real-time notification systems are used to prompt passengers, then orderly deplaning is achieved, but electronic equipment and power requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system sends notifications in periodic batches corresponding to different seating zones or rows rather than continuously notifying all passengers simultaneously. This staged notification approach reduces peak power demands on the electronic system while maintaining orderly flow control.
Data Source
AI summary
Devices, systems and methods for electronic systems that manage an order in which an aircraft is boarded or deplaned are described. An exemplary method includes configuring an onboard computer to execute a script, wherein the script controls an order by which passengers on an airplane are prompted for deplaning, updating the script for a travel segment of the airplane using a first input comprising a passenger information for the travel segment or a second input comprising a travel configuration of the airplane during the travel segment or a third input from onboard crew of the airplane; and controlling onboard electronic equipment of the airplane by executing the script at an end of the travel segment by prompting passengers to deplane the airplane in the order.