Patent ID: 8577521
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. An on-board aeronautic system on an aircraft, the system comprising: a plurality of heterogeneous equipment items communicating according to separate protocols or formats and configured to process commands for operation of the aircraft, at least part of the equipment items being reconfigurable; and a reconfiguration management center configured to receive state messages from the plurality of equipment items, each indicating a state of operation of each of the plurality of equipment items, to determine whether each of the plurality of equipment items is functioning properly, and to emit reconfiguration messages destined for the reconfigurable equipment items as a function of the plurality of received state messages, at least one of the reconfiguration messages instructing to allocate a second reconfigurable equipment item with the functionality of a first equipment item that is determined to be malfunctioning, wherein the heterogeneous equipment items include monitoring units configured to emit the state messages according to the same format, the reconfigurable equipment items include reconfiguration units, each of the reconfiguration units configured to process at least one of the reconfiguration messages from the reconfiguration management center, and the reconfiguration unit of the second reconfigurable equipment item is configured to reconfigure the second reconfigurable equipment item to perform the functionality of the first equipment item via applications of the first equipment item that have been transferred to the second reconfigurable equipment item.