US 11,927,460 B2
Control of diverse types of crew interface for flight control
Charlie Hewitt, Rochester (GB); Philip Lamb, Rochester (GB); James Austen Harrison, Rochester (GB); and Antony Kershaw, Rochester (GB)
Assigned to BAE SYSTEMS PLC, London (GB)
Appl. No. 16/757,603
Filed by BAE SYSTEMS plc, London (GB)
PCT Filed Oct. 24, 2018, PCT No. PCT/GB2018/053074
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 20, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/081924, PCT Pub. Date May 2, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17275172 (EP), filed on Oct. 25, 2017; and application No. 1717544 (GB), filed on Oct. 25, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0264010 A1, Aug. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. B64D 45/00 (2006.01); G01C 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 23/005 (2013.01) [B64D 45/00 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling respective outputs of diverse types of crew interfaces for outputting visible, audio and tactile information to a human pilot for flight control of an aircraft, the method comprising:
receiving flight status information from multiple different sensors;
determining a unified estimation of a current aircraft state and a unified estimation of a current phase of flight, based on at least the flight status information from the multiple different sensors;
generating respective coordinated visible, audio and tactile presentations for the diverse types of crew interfaces, coordinated so that they provide mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, according to the unified estimation of the current phase of flight, wherein generating the respective presentations comprises synchronizing changes in the mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, in response to changes in the unified estimation of the current phase of flight, wherein synchronizing changes accounts for one or more inconsistencies between the multiple different sensors, and wherein the mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state comprises consistent indications of a proximity to a flight control parameter from the multiple different sensors; and
causing the respective coordinated presentations to be output by the diverse types of crew interfaces.