Patent ID: 8145364

Claim:
A method for aiding the restoral of command of a moving vehicle to an operator of the vehicle, the command of the vehicle by the operator being ensured through piloting controls CP acting on piloting means, the operator having lost command of the vehicle in favor of a device for disabling piloting controls CP, the device disabling the action of the piloting controls CP on the piloting means during the loss of command, wherein the method comprises the following steps: Step A: Emitting a request to restore command of the vehicle destined for the operator; Step B: Determining a vehicle motion phase P M ; Step C: For each piloting control CP, determining a reference state S R of the piloting control CP as a function of the motion phase P M ; Step D: For each piloting control CP, determining a current state S C of the piloting control CP; Step E: For each piloting control CP, comparing the current state S C with the reference state S R , so as to identify any deviation between the current state and the reference state; Step F: When no deviation is identified in all piloting controls CP, the command of the vehicle by the operator is restored; Step G: When a deviation is identified in any of the piloting controls CP, determining alert messages for warning the operator of the identified deviation and associating a priority level with each alert message; and Step H: Repeating steps B to G after performing the Step G.