Aircraft taxiing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8965671-B2
Application number	US-201313844804-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 16, 2013
Priority date	Mar 16, 2013
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

An aircraft taxiing system is provided, comprising a flight control system, an electric taxi system having controls, a flight management system (FMS), at least one data input source coupled to the FMS, and a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS). The FMS is programmed with instructions to calculate guidance speed and heading commands, augment the guidance commands to avoid runway incursions, and transmit the guidance commands to the flight control system. The TCAS is programmed with instructions to receive Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data from ground traffic, generate collision avoidance alerts; and transmit the collision avoidance alerts to the flight control system. The flight control system is programmed with instructions to receive guidance commands from the FMS, receive the traffic collision avoidance alerts from the TCAS, and compute the steering commands, and transmit the commands to the electric taxi system to taxi the aircraft along a calculated taxi route.

First claim

We claim:

1. An aircraft taxiing system, comprising:
a flight control system on board an aircraft and configured to automatically taxi the aircraft;
an on board electric taxi system having controls coupled to the flight control system;
a flight management system (FMS) on board the aircraft and coupled to the flight control system;
a data source selection module configured to automatically select, from among a plurality of guidance data sources, a guidance data source with th…

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Choksi Hardik
• Sainudeen Rafeek
• Sham Nagaraj

Classifications

• G08G5/21

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G5/51 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G5/065 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic