Generic Polynomial Algorithm for Aircraft Weapon Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of weapon systems with aircraft is complex and time-consuming, requiring extensive storage and processing capacity due to the need for distinct models for each weapon type, which complicates updates and changes, leading to high costs and lengthy integration processes.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method using a generic polynomial algorithm to generate feasibility displays for weapon engagement, where coefficients are identified and uploaded to the aircraft, allowing for a unified approach across different weapon types and aircraft, reducing storage and processing demands by using a Capability Filter to assess engagement feasibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If distinct models are created for each weapon type, then weapon engagement feasibility can be accurately calculated, but storage capacity and device complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a single universal polynomial model that can calculate Launch Acceptability Regions and Launch Success Zones for multiple weapon types (air-to-ground and air-to-air weapons) using the same mathematical framework. The model takes weapon performance characteristics, aircraft conditions, and target conditions as inputs and generates engagement feasibility assessments without requiring separate models for different weapon categories.
2Reliability
If comprehensive weapon models are integrated into aircraft systems, then accurate feasibility displays can be generated, but integration time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms complex weapon models into polynomial representations characterized by a set of coefficients. This parameter transformation allows the same polynomial structure to represent different weapon types by simply changing the coefficient values, which can be uploaded to the aircraft system without requiring comprehensive re-integration of the entire model architecture.
3Adaptability or versatility
If weapon models are modified to improve performance, then weapon capability increases, but re-integration becomes necessary and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates the weapon model into two independent components: the polynomial mathematical structure (which remains constant) and the coefficients (which vary with weapon type and performance characteristics). This segmentation allows weapon performance improvements to be implemented by updating only the coefficient data without affecting the underlying model architecture or requiring system re-integration.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple weapon models are stored on the aircraft, then all weapon types can be supported, but storage capacity is consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a single copied polynomial model structure that can represent multiple weapon types through different coefficient sets. Instead of storing multiple complete weapon models, the system stores one polynomial framework and loads appropriate coefficients for the currently selected weapon type, dramatically reducing the storage requirements while maintaining full weapon type coverage capability.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method of generating, in an aircraft in flight, a feasibility display indicative of a feasibility of a weapon carried on the aircraft successfully engaging a target and/or a feasibility of a weapon carried on the target successfully engaging the aircraft, the method comprising: providing a database describing a performance envelope of the weapon; creating coefficients characteristic of that performance envelope using a generic algorithm, wherein the generic algorithm has the form of a polynomial, by steps including identifying a best candidate polynomial from a plurality of candidate polynomials, the variables of the polynomials being some or all of a group of weapon or aircraft firing condition parameters; uploading, to the aircraft, the coefficients of the identified best candidate polynomial; and selecting, by a reconstructor on the aircraft containing the same generic algorithm, the coefficients for the generic algorithm according to conditions of the aircraft and the target; and using the selected coefficients, generating, by the reconstructor, the feasibility display; characterised by: wherein selecting, by the reconstructor on the aircraft containing the same generic algorithm, the coefficients for the generic algorithm according to conditions of the aircraft and the target comprises selecting, by the reconstructor on the aircraft containing the same generic algorithm, the coefficients for the generic algorithm, if the aircraft and the target are within the performance envelope of the weapon, according to the conditions of the aircraft and the target.