Aircraft profile optimization with communication links to an external computational asset

US10460610B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Eric Richard Westervelt · Niskayuna, US
• MacKenzie Dylan Cumings · Grand Rapids, US
• Mark Lawrence Darnell · Grand Rapids, US
• David Michael Lax · Grand Rapids, US
• Liling Ren · Niskayuna, US
• Nicholas Visser · Kentwood, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2019
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G5/76
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a prescribed flight from at least one of an airborne system of a particular aircraft to execute the prescribed flight and a system other than the airborne system of the particular aircraft having a source of data related to the prescribed flight, the flight data including specific details relating to at least one of the particular aircraft and parameters of the prescribed flight; performing, by a processor of an external computational asset and based on the obtained flight data, a control optimization to generate optimized path specific controls for the prescribed flight; transmitting the optimized path specific controls via a communication uplink from the external computational asset to the particular aircraft; and guiding, in response to receiving the optimized path specific controls by the particular aircraft, the particular aircraft in accordance with the optimized path specific controls to execute the prescribed flight.