Patent Document ID: 7623996
Application ID: 11256534
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for generating a mass-property model of a target aircraft design comprising: a digital processor; a process controlled by the digital processor for implementing steps comprising: extracting mass properties regarding a source aircraft design from a database; establishing source homogenous coordinates defining at least one discrete source bay; incorporating said source homogenous coordinates into a source matrix; using target homogeneous coordinates defining at least one target bay; incorporating said target homogenous coordinates into a target matrix; calculating a transformation matrix using said source matrix and said target matrix to generate transformed source coordinates and target coordinates; converging said transformation matrix for transformations to minimize differences between the transformed source coordinates and the target coordinates, wherein said converging comprises: setting a fourth dimensional element of each homogeneous coordinate to unity in said source matrix; initializing a fourth dimensional element in said target matrix at unity; and repeatedly changing the value of said fourth dimensional element in said target matrix until normalization is achieved; using the source homogenous coordinates and the target homogeneous coordinates to generate new target coordinates; morphing source mass property information into target mass property information using said new target coordinates to generate the mass-property model; and generating a report including characteristics of the mass-property model.