Patent ID: 11922331
Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A system for aircraft icing prediction comprising:
an aircraft-mounted environmental sensor suite configured to measure at least two different kinds of environmental parameters corresponding to conditions external to an aircraft as the aircraft travels along a flight path;
data acquisition circuitry communicatively coupled to the environmental sensor suite and configured to acquire and deliver real-time environmental data from the environmental sensor suite, wherein a database stores a library of learning comprising information about the success or failure of previous icing avoidance maneuvers, and wherein a reinforcement learning engine is configured to issue no icing risk alert and recommended no icing avoidance maneuver based on a determination of a tolerable risk of icing made based on the information in the library of learning; and
an onboard computer system, communicatively coupled to the data acquisition circuitry to receive the environmental data, the computer system comprising a supervised learning engine and the reinforcement learning engine configured to process the environmental data and user-defined parameters to compute a probability that the aircraft will experience icing along the flight path, and to generate an icing risk alert and/or a recommended icing avoidance maneuver based on the computed probability of icing.