Patent ID: 11869373
Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An automatic, autonomous predictive aircraft surface state event track (ASSET) system comprising an off-airplane ASSET service in signal communication with an airplane operating on a surface of an airport, comprising:
an onboard ASSET system installed on the airplane and configured to control an onboard sensor suite to acquire sensor data indicative of operational states of the airplane and transmit the sensor data to the off-airplane ASSET service;
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, of the ASSET service, having encoded thereon machine instructions for predicting surface state events of the airplane; and
an ASSET service processor that executes the machine instructions to receive the sensor data, wherein the ASSET service processor further:
computes an operational state of the airplane using the sensor data received from the airplane,
identifies future aircraft events associated with operation of the airplane on the surface of the airport, and
using the computed airplane operational state and the identified future aircraft events, provides to aircraft flight control, a prediction that within a statistically-derived time window, the airplane will meet a future aircraft surface state event.