Patent ID: 8954262
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for use with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied therein program code for determining the capacity of an airspace to safely handle multiple aircrafts, the computer program product comprising: A) program code for acquiring data describing a plurality of trajectories each representing an aircraft or an obstacle within an airspace, B) program code for recalculating selected of the plurality of trajectories at time intervals; C) program code for identifying conflicts between pairs of aircraft rajectories or between an aircraft trajectory and an obstacle trajectory; D) program code for modifying a trajectory of one of the pair of aircraft trajectories or the aircraft trajectory in conflict with the obstacle trajectory; and E) program code for 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.