Patent ID: 11858652
Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A system for preserving cockpit data to support mishap investigations of an unmanned vehicle during a sortie, the system comprising:
computer workstations of a cockpit, each including a user input, a display, and circuitry configured to:
manage travel of the unmanned vehicle during the sortie;
detect user input signals received from the user input of the computer workstation during the sortie; and
detect display data that is output from the display of the computer workstation during the sortie;
cause workstation data to be stored as part of the cockpit data, wherein the workstation data includes the user input signals and the display data from each of the computer workstations of the cockpit; and
when a mishap occurs during the sortie, maintain storage of the cockpit data;

further comprising a shadow computer workstation including a display and circuitry configured to:
detect display data that is output from the display of the shadow computer workstation during the sortie;
cause shadow workstation data to be stored as part of the cockpit data, wherein the shadow workstation data includes the display data from the shadow computer workstation.