Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Michel Azar

Henry H Fung

Devang R Parekh

Louis Oddo

Feng Cao

Benjamin J Montgomery

Wayne S Kim

Britton Bankson

Naorus F Abdulghani

Louis A Oddo

One example includes a mission monitoring system. The system includes a data store configured to store map data associated with a geographic region of interest and a plurality of graphical elements corresponding to at least one mission asset and to mission constraints. Each of the plurality of graphical elements includes a layer assignment associated with one of a plurality of graphical layers. The system also includes a human-machine interface (HMI) configured to facilitate user inputs to selectively activate the plurality of graphical layers associated with the plurality of graphical elements and to display a graphical rendering of the selectively activated graphical layers superimposed over a graphical virtual environment of the geographic region of interest via a display system.

Mission monitoring system

One example includes a federated system manager. Asset adapters receive situational awareness data from a respective plurality of mission assets and convert the situational awareness data into a central data format. Mission constraint adapters receive mission constraint data associated with real-time mission constraints from a respective plurality of mission constraint databases and convert the mission constraint data into the central data format. A mission control adapter receives control data from a mission control station to convert mission control data into the central data format and to provide mission status data to the at least one mission control station for real-time control of the mission. A data model repository maintains a universal data model tracking real-time interactive states of the plurality of mission assets, the real-time mission constraints, and the mission control data. The data model repository also generates the mission status data in real-time based on the universal data model.

Federated system mission management

One example includes a terrain profile system. A data store stores map data of a geographic region of interest and DTED. A route input system facilitates user inputs associated with defining a planned flight path of an aircraft between two points on a map associated with the map data and with defining flight characteristic data of the aircraft. A terrain profile controller defines a terrain signature associated with a topography of terrain features of the geographic region of interest along the planned flight path based on the DTED and a planned altitude of the aircraft along the planned flight path based on the flight characteristic data. A display system displays a terrain profile comprising the terrain signature, the planned altitude relative to the terrain signature, and a real-time location of the aircraft superimposed on the planned altitude based on real-time location data associated with the aircraft.

Terrain profile system

Systems and methods are provided for generating a maneuver on a propagated route for an unmanned vehicle from a series of waypoints. A planner interface is configured to receive the waypoints and at least one parameter representing constraints on the propagated route of the unmanned vehicle. A curve generation component is configured to determine respective positions for each of a set of N+1 control points for a rational Bezier curve of Norder from the series of waypoints and the parameter. N is an integer greater than three. A weight generation component is configured to determine scalar weights for the set of N+1 control points from the parameter. A navigation interface is configured to provide the maneuver, generated from the positions for the set of control points and the scalar weights, to a control system of the unmanned vehicle, configured to execute the provided maneuver at the unmanned vehicle.

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Michel Azar