Instructional assessment system for a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10964226-B2
Application number	US-201514599766-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 19, 2015
Priority date	Jan 19, 2015
Publication date	Mar 30, 2021
Grant date	Mar 30, 2021

Abstract

A method and apparatus for assessing performance of an operation for a vehicle. Real-time information is received by a computer system in the vehicle from at least one of a vehicle operator or a group of hardware systems in the vehicle during the operation for the vehicle. The performance of the vehicle operator in performing the operation is determined by from the real-time information. A graphical image of the feedback is displayed in a display system in the vehicle during the operation in which the graphical image provides guidance in operating the vehicle to perform the operation. The graphical image of the feedback comprises a graphical indicium of a corrective action for the correcting operation of the vehicle while carrying out the operation of the vehicle in which the graphical indicium enables improving performance of the operation of the vehicle by the vehicle operator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus that comprises:
a display system, in a vehicle, configured to provide a guidance for a group of input controls;
a processor that comprises:
an assessment system, removably attached to the vehicle, such that the assessment system comprises code specially programmed to:
communicate with the display system;
receive, from sensors in a hardware system in the vehicle, a directional control command and real-time information of a performance of the vehicle during an operation of the vehicle, such that the hardware system comprises at least one of: an environmental control system, a collision avoidance system, and a biometric sensor system for a vehicle operator;
determine, based upon an assessment definition, the real-time information and the directional control command, a performance of the operation; and
generate, based upon an event generation based upon a rule in an assessment definition, that looks for the real-time information, in an event generator, a corrective action to improve the performance of the operation of the vehicle during the operation;

a feedback generator configured to transform the corrective action for at least one of: a speed, a heading, a position, an attitude, an altitude, an engine control setting, a communication systems setting, a setting for the hardware system, of the vehicle, to the guidance for the vehicle to perform the corrective action, such that the guidance forms a graphical image; and
a platform variable mapping configured to format the graphical image as a graphical indicium overlaid on a display, of the real-time information of the performance of the vehicle during the operation of the vehicle, on the display system, such that the display simultaneously presents the attitude, the speed, and the altitude of the vehicle.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the guidance comprising:
real-time guidance to only an instructor display; and
the performance comprises real-time performance.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the graphical indicium comprises a crosshair on the display system.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the graphical image provides an assessment rating for the operation for the vehicle.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle comprises an aircraft that comprises:
a communications bus in the aircraft; the assessment system configured:
to receive the real-time information from at least a group of hardware systems in the aircraft via the communications bus; and
in communication with the display system via the communications bus; and

a feedback indicator that comprises the graphical indicium that comprises the guidance, such that the guidance comprises an adjustment, to a performance of a maneuver of the aircraft.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the assessment system configured to identify a real-time corrective action for the performance of the operation based on the real-time information about the performance.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the graphical indicium overlaid on a display of a group of parameters for the operation comprises the guidance, such that the guidance directs the real-time corrective action.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the vehicle is an aircraft, the group of parameters is an altitude of the aircraft, and the graphical indicium comprises the guidance for at least one of: a direction of a desired altitude, and a value of the desired altitude.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the real-time information from the hardware system in the vehicle comprises at least one of: an altitude, a yaw, a pitch, a roll, a velocity, a directional velocity, a fuel use, an engine temperature, a heartbeat rate of a vehicle operator, a direction at which the vehicle operator is looking, and a blood pressure of the vehicle operator.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the assessment system located in a pod removably attached to the vehicle.

11. A method for guiding a corrective action for a performance of an operation for a vehicle, the method comprising a computer system in the vehicle:
receiving, in an assessment system, a directional control command and real-time information of a performance of the vehicle during an operation of the vehicle, from a sensor for a hardware system in the vehicle during the operation of the vehicle in a session, such that the hardware system comprises at least one of: an environmental control system, a vehicle directional control command, a collision avoidance system, and a biometric sensor system for a vehicle operator;
determining, using the real-time information, the performance of the vehicle performing the operation;
generating, using a rule in an event generator looking for the real-time information, an event;
generating, in the assessment system, a feedback based on the event and the performance of the vehicle, and a guidance comprising a corrective action, for a group of input controls for at least one of: a speed, a heading, a position, an attitude, an altitude, an engine control setting, a communication systems setting, a setting for the hardware system, of the vehicle, improving the performance of the vehicle;
formatting, in a feedback generator, the guidance for displaying, in real time, a graphical image of the feedback in a display system in the vehicle during the operation; and
receiving, in a platform variable mapping, the graphical image comprising the guidance and transforming the guidance into a graphical indicium, of the corrective action during the operation, that overlays the corrective action onto a display, of the real-time information from the hardware system, on the display system, such that the display simultaneously presents the attitude, the speed, and the altitude of the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising providing the guidance to at least one of: a vehicle operator display, and an instructor display.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising displaying the graphical indicium as a crosshair.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising the graphical indicium providing an assessment rating for the operation.

15. The method of claim 11 , further comprising the vehicle comprising an aircraft and the graphical indicium comprising a feedback indicator providing the guidance for adjusting at least one of: the speed, a heading, the position, the attitude, the altitude of the aircraft, the engine control setting, and the setting for the hardware system, while performing a maneuver in the operation for the aircraft.

16. The method of claim 11 , further comprising identifying the corrective action for performing the operation based on the real-time information.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising displaying the corrective action as a crosshair overlaid on a display of a group of parameters for the operation.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising the vehicle comprising an aircraft, the group of parameters comprising an altitude of the aircraft, and the graphical indicium indicating at least one of: a direction of a desired altitude, and a value of the desired altitude.

19. The method of claim 11 , further comprising selecting the real-time information from the hardware system in the vehicle from at least one of: a yaw, a pitch, a roll, a velocity, a directional velocity, a fuel use, an engine temperature, a heartbeat rate of a vehicle operator, a direction at which the vehicle operator is looking, and a blood pressure of the vehicle operator.

Assignees

• Boeing Co

Inventors

• Wokurka John
• Stumpf Tim
• Biddle Elizabeth Marie
• Sowadski Clifford B

Classifications

• B60W40/09

  Driving style or behaviour · CPC title

• G09B9/24 Primary

  including display or recording of simulated flight path · CPC title

• B60W50/14

  Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention · CPC title

• B60W40/08

  related to drivers or passengers · CPC title

• Y02T10/40

  Engine management systems · CPC title