Patent ID: 11927460
Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 14:
15. A controller for controlling respective outputs of diverse types of crew interfaces for outputting visible, audio and tactile information to a human pilot for flight control, the controller having a processing circuit and a memory circuit, the memory circuit having instructions executable by the processing circuit, wherein said processing circuit when executing the instructions is configured to:
receive flight status information from multiple different sensors;
determine a unified estimation of current aircraft state, based on at least the flight status information from the multiple different sensors;
determine a unified estimation of a current phase of flight, based on at least the flight status information from the multiple different sensors;
generate respective coordinated visible, audio and tactile presentations for the diverse types of crew interfaces, coordinated so that they provide mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, according to the unified estimation of the flight phase, wherein generating the respective presentations comprises synchronizing changes in the mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, in response to changes in the unified estimation of the current phase of flight, wherein synchronizing changes accounts for inconsistencies between the multiple different sensors, and wherein the mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state comprises consistent indications of a proximity to a flight control parameter from the multiple different sensors; and
cause the respective coordinated presentations to be output by the diverse types of crew interfaces.