Aircraft navigation system and method for aircraft navigation

US10393541B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Airbus Defence and Space GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Olaf Heinzinger · Hersbruck, DE
• Matthias Oberhauser · Hersbruck, DE
• Sèbastien Mamessier · Hersbruck, DE
• Rafael Fernandes De Oliveira · Hersbruck, DE
• Daniel Dreyer · Missouri City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 2, 2016
• Grant date: Aug 27, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 2, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G5/55
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An aircraft navigation system and a method for aircraft navigation is presented. The aircraft navigation system has a navigation-map data source, navigation-map data provided by the navigation-map data source including information about a multitude of objects O on earth surface which are of high potential visibility and high potential identifiability from elevated positions, each information for an object OϵO including a position and a type of the respective object O; a first system for measuring an actual aircraft position P(t); a waypoint data source providing waypoints WPi defining an aircraft intended flight track; a second system for selecting per waypoint WPi one object Oi(WPi) with Oi(WPi)ϵO depending on given selection criteria; and a display for displaying an information I(Oi(WPi) referring the selected object Oi(WPi).