Patent ID: 8594917
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for determining the airspace capacity to safely handle multiple aircrafts, the method comprising: A) acquiring data describing a plurality of trajectories each representing an aircraft or an obstacle within an airspace, B) recalculating selected of the plurality of trajectories at time intervals; C) identifying conflicts between pairs of aircraft trajectories or between an aircraft trajectory and an obstacle trajectory; D) modifying a trajectory of one of the pair of aircraft trajectories or the aircraft trajectory in conflict with the obstacle trajectory; and E) repeating B) through D) a predetermined number of cycles until no conflicts are identified in C), else provide an indication that the airspace is approaching unsafe capacity to handle additional trajectories; wherein the data describing the trajectory for each aircraft comprises a multi-dimensional data structure stored in computer memory and comprising data representing a first time value and a second time value.