Patent ID: 8983686
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G01C,G05B,G08G

Abstract:
1. A device on-board an aircraft comprising: processing circuitry including: an input circuitry portion configured to transmit inputted reconfiguration control data for reconfiguration control of a plurality of different aircraft systems; and a module providing an interface between said input circuitry portion and the different aircraft systems, said module being configured to receive reconfiguration control data from said input circuitry portion, to check the received reconfiguration control data to identify invalid reconfiguration control data, to remove identified invalid reconfiguration control data from said input circuitry portion, to synthesize correlated reconfiguration control data having invalid reconfiguration control data removed, based on the reconfiguration control data from said input circuitry portion and depending on predetermined control rules to produce a single synthesized reconfiguration control data signal, to determine which of the different aircraft systems are operational and which should receive the single synthesized reconfiguration control data signal, and to transmit the single synthesized reconfiguration control data signal only to the aircraft systems of the different aircraft systems that are determined operational and that should receive the single synthesized reconfiguration control data signal.