Unified Flight Management Interface for Civil Tactical Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Military aircraft operating in civilian or commercial airspace require integration of both civil and tactical flight management systems, necessitating a unified interface for pilots to manage both systems effectively, while ensuring data security and compliance with different aviation standards.
Innovation Solution
A dual core flight management system with a unified user interface is implemented, allowing pilots to access and control both civil and tactical flight management systems through a single interface. This system includes a processor and memory that receive input data, process it, and transmit responses, ensuring data integrity and compliance by sanitizing and transforming data as needed for transmission to avionics systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a unified user interface is implemented to access both civil and tactical flight management systems, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a unified user interface that acts as an intermediary layer between the pilot and the separate civil and tactical flight management systems. This interface receives pilot inputs, routes them to the appropriate system core, and consolidates responses, thereby improving ease of operation without requiring direct complexity management of both systems by the pilot
Solution Approach 2:
The flight management system is segmented into distinct civil and tactical cores that operate independently but are accessed through a unified interface. This segmentation allows each core to maintain its specialized functionality while the unified interface manages the complexity of integrating both systems
2Adaptability or versatility
If both civil and tactical flight management systems are integrated into a multi core system, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified user interface provides multi-functional capability by enabling access to both civil and tactical flight management systems through a single interface. This universal access point allows the system to adapt to different operational modes (civilian or military) without requiring separate interface systems, thereby improving adaptability while managing complexity through consolidation
3Productivity
If data is transmitted between civil and tactical flight management systems, then productivity is improved, but loss of information increases due to data sanitization requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different data processing qualities to different data streams based on their destination. Civil flight data is sanitized and transformed for civil system compatibility, while tactical data maintains its integrity for military system use. This local quality approach allows productive data exchange while minimizing information loss by applying appropriate processing only where required
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AI summary
A computerized method for providing a unified user interface to a plurality of flight management components encapsulated within a flight management system. The method can include receiving a flight management system input dataset from a first flight management system user interface device. The method can also include creating, with a processor programmed to provide a unified user interface, a plurality of flight management system input data portions to be transmitted to a plurality of destination flight management system components. The plurality of flight management system input data portions can be based on the flight management system input dataset and each flight management system input data portion can correspond to one of said plurality of destination flight management system components. Each of said plurality of flight management system input data portions can be transmitted from the processor to said corresponding destination flight management system component.