Airplane system and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9729305-B2
Application number	US-201514612218-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2015
Priority date	Mar 4, 2014
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed are an airplane system including duplex modules, and a control method thereof. The control method of the airplane system includes: receiving, by each of a plurality of duplex modules, a corresponding event command from a client; performing, by a first module, a first event specified by the event command in response to the event command; performing, by a second module different from the first module, a second event specified by the event command after the first event is completed; and returning a first response signal indicating a result of the performance of the first event and a second response signal indicating a result of the performance of the second event to the client, in which the client compares the first response signal and the second response signal, and determines whether the plurality of duplex modules is synchronized or has an error.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling an airplane system, comprising:
receiving, by each of a plurality of duplex modules, a corresponding event command from a client;
performing, by a first module among the plurality of duplex modules, a first event specified by the event command in response to the event command;
performing, by a second module different from the first module among the plurality of duplex modules, a second event specified by the event command after the first event is completed; and
transmitting, by the first and second modules, a first response signal indicating a result of the performance of the first event and a second response signal indicating a result of the performance of the second event to the client,
wherein the client compares the first response signal and the second response signal, and determines whether the plurality of duplex modules is synchronized or has an error,
wherein the method further comprises providing, by the first module, a synchronization request to a memory unit after the first event is performed so that the memory unit toggles or changes a value of a flag stored therein in response to the synchronization request provided by the first module,
wherein the performing of the second event includes performing the second event in response to the toggle or the change of the value of the flag from the memory unit,
wherein the performing further comprises providing, by the second module, another synchronization request discriminated from the synchronization request provided by the first module to the memory unit after the second event is performed, and
wherein the memory unit toggles or changes the value of the flag stored in the memory unit again in response to the synchronization request provided by the second module.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first module is a master module first operated among the plurality of duplex modules, and
the second module is a slave module replacing the first module when the first module has failure.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first event is a monitoring operation or a debugging operation performed by the first module, and
the second event is a monitoring operation or a debugging operation performed by the second module.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the event command is transmitted to each of the plurality of duplex modules in a form of a packet.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first response signal and the second response signal are transmitted to the client in a form of a packet.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the event command includes an identifier for the corresponding duplex module.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the identifier is included in the first response signal or the second response signal to be transmitted to the client.

8. An airplane system, comprising:
a client;
a memory unit;
a first module configured to receive a first event command from the client, perform a first event in response to the first event command, transmit a result of the performance of the first event to the client as a first response signal, and provide a synchronization request to the memory unit after the first event is performed; and
a second module configured to receive a second event command from the client, perform a second event in response to the second event command, and transmit a result of the performance of the second event to the client as a second response signal,
wherein the client compares the first response signal and the second response signal, and determines whether the first module and the second module are synchronized or have errors,
wherein the memory unit toggles or changes a value of a synchronization flag stored therein in response to the synchronization request provided by the first module,
wherein the second module provides another synchronization request discriminated from the synchronization request provided by the first module to the memory unit after the second event is performed, and
wherein the memory unit toggles or changes the value of the synchronization flag stored therein again in response to the synchronization request provided by the second module.

9. The airplane system of claim 8 , wherein the second module performs the second event in response to the toggle or the change of the synchronization flag.

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst

Inventors

• Shin Chang Min
• Kim Tae Ho
• Lim Chae Deok

Classifications

• B64D47/00

  Equipment not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• H04L5/14 Primary

  Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex · CPC title

• H04W56/00

  Synchronisation arrangements · CPC title