Patent ID: 9135828
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of generating an aircraft intent description expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous four dimensional description of an aircraft's intended motion and configuration during a period of flight, comprising: obtaining, by an intent generation infrastructure, a flight intent description corresponding to a flight plan spanning the period of the flight; ensuring, by the intent generation infrastructure, that the flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent, wherein each of the instances of the flight intent is spanning a flight segment, and wherein flight segments together span the period of the flight, wherein the flight segments represent an intent of changing an aircraft motion state from one state into another; for each flight segment, generating, by the intent generation infrastructure, an associated flight segment intent dataset that comprises at least one of at least one instance of the flight intent and at least one instance of open aircraft intent, wherein each of the at least one instance of the open aircraft intent describes the aircraft's motion in at least one degree of freedom of motion; enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the flight intent description to generate an enriched flight intent description by using user preferences; enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the enriched flight intent description to generate a further enriched flight intent description by using operational context; enriching, by the intent generation infrastructure, the further enriched flight intent description to generate a still further enriched flight intent description by using aircraft performance; closing, by the intent generation infrastructure, the instances of the open aircraft intent to form a parametric aircraft intent description; and optimizing, by the intent generation infrastructure, the parametric aircraft intent description to generate a fully closed aircraft intent description expressed in the formal language to assist in flying the aircraft with the unambiguous four dimensional description of the aircraft's intended motion and configuration during the period of flight.