Patent ID: 8862373
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: B64C,G05D,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for guaranteeing a temporal spacing between an aircraft and at least one reference moving object, said temporal spacing being guaranteed no later than at a point in a flight plan called a point of interception, with the aircraft following a current flight plan, wherein feasibility of guaranteeing the temporal spacing at a date Tcour by regulating a speed of the aircraft while maintaining the current flight plan is verified, the method comprising: determining two speed profiles Tmin(X), Tmax(X) which comply with transit at a date ETAreq which guarantees a temporal spacing between an aircraft and at least one reference moving object and which is associated with a point of interception, a speed profile being composed of points indexed by a date and a position index, the two speed profiles Tmin(X), Tmax(X) being determined based on a minimum speed and a maximum speed, respectively, which the aircraft can attain, verifying whether a date Tcour is contained within a feasibility range with two limits Bmin, Bmax which are equal to values taken by the two speed profiles Tmin(X) and Tmax(X), respectively, for a position Xcour of the aircraft at the date Tcour, with a feasibility of the date Tcour being verified, and