Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Traffic analysis or control of aircraft
Patent
1998-02-27
1999-12-21
Chin, Gary
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Traffic analysis or control of aircraft
340953, G06F16300
Patent
active
060061588
ABSTRACT:
An Airport Guidance System and Method which provides for GNSS compatible seamless airport guidance capability is disclosed. The computer system provides a automated lighting functions based upon GNSS based position and spatially compatible databases. The system and method utilize precise GNSS compatible zones, the Earth Centered Earth Fixed (ECEF) WGS-84 coordinate reference frame, GNSS compatible local coordinate frames such as local and state plane grids, zone-based automated airport lighting control, travel path information management processes which allow for the intelligent control of airport lighting systems. True airport independent processing is achieved when the ECEF coordinate reference frame is utilized. The lighting methods and processes are applicable to vehicles and aircraft operating in a controlled airport space envelope as well as other remote user sites with or without the assistance of air traffic controller. The system utilizes broadcast Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) information from participating aircraft and vehicles. Although the processing methods may be employed using other surveillance information derived from radar sources with some degradation in performance due to radar inaccuracies and inability to produce accurate 3-dimensional velocity. The methods and processes employed provide a fundamental framework for increased airport safety, operational efficiency, energy savings and improved automation.
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Pilley Harold Robert
Pilley Lois V.
Chin Gary
Pilley H. R.
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