Patent ID: 8311782

Claim:
A method of computerized routing of a physical link of an avionics platform inside an aircraft, where said physical link connects a plurality of physical equipment units and is composed of one or more branches, where each branch of said link connects a sender equipment unit to a receiver equipment unit of said plurality, said method comprising: projecting the positions of the sender and receiver equipment units orthogonally onto at least one predetermined routing graph inside the aircraft and extending said graph at the points defined by said positions and by their respective projections on the graph and by the links between the sender and receiver equipment units; determining, for each branch of said link, a routing path being the shortest path through the graph thus extended between the sender and receiver equipment units that it connects, where said routing path is defined by an ordered list of segments between said equipment units; eliminating redundant segments between the routing paths to obtain pruned paths, where a redundant segment is defined as belonging to at least two routing paths; determining derivation points as the segment extremities common to at least three segments of said pruned paths; defining, based on each pruned path, a set of cables whose extremities are located either at an equipment unit point or at a derivation point, with said cables being routed along the routing path.