Patent ID: 8527190

Claim:
A system for aiding the piloting of an aircraft taxiing on an airport domain, the system comprising: a trajectory generating device for generating a trajectory for taxiing the aircraft in the airport domain, from an airport database, the trajectory generating device further comprising: a navigation device for receiving a path, the path comprising a succession of identifiers for surface elements of the airport domain to be followed by the aircraft, each surface element representing a distinct and bounded portion of the airport domain; and a communication device for providing the trajectory to a piloting aiding device; a database extraction device for automatically extracting surface elements and a plurality of polylines from the airport database, said airport database containing each of the surface elements relating to the path to be followed by the aircraft; a connectivity detecting device for providing connectivity information relating to the extracted surface elements and the extracted plurality of polylines, the connectivity information including which of the extracted polylines connect to or traverse said extracted surface elements; a starting and arrival point detecting device for automatically identifying the starting and arrival points of the path; a continuous way determining device for automatically determining a continuous way linking the starting and arrival points, the continuous way represented by at least some of the extracted polylines connected to or traversing the extracted surface elements; a conversion device for automatically converting the polylines into a succession of curves forming the trajectory to be followed by the aircraft; and the piloting aiding devices, wherein the piloting aiding devices include an automatic piloting/taxiing system that automatically actuates the aircraft to follow the trajectory received from the trajectory generating device.