Airbus Helicopters

Université De Valenciennes Et Du Hainaut Cambrésis

Université De Lille 1 - Ustl

Nicolas Belanger

Francois-Xavier Filias

Nicolas Damiani

Marc Salesse-Lavergne

Jean-Pierre Baudry

François-Xavier Filias

Arnaud Violette

Pierre Zoppitelli

Geoffroy Pertuisot

Konstanca Nikolajevic

Rémi Girard

Rabie Ben Atitallah

Martial Rubio

Jean-Luc Dekeyser

A device for assisting the piloting of a rotorcraft in order to pilot a rotorcraft during an approach stage preceding a stage of landing on a rotorcraft landing area. Such a device includes in particular a camera for taking a plurality of images of the environment of the rotorcraft along a line of sight, looking at least along a forward direction Dx of the rotorcraft, and processor for identifying in at least one image from among said plurality of images at least one looked-for landing area.

Device for assisting the piloting of a rotorcraft, associated display, and a corresponding method of assisting piloting

A safety system seeking to avoid an undesirable event while piloting a helicopter. According to the invention, the system is remarkable in that it comprises a computer making it possible at any instantto generate a three-dimensional envelope of fallback paths for the helicopter, the envelope being obtained by calculating, at the instant, a set of positions that can be reached by the helicopter during a predetermined flight duration, the computer having parameters previously set with data relating to the flight capabilities of the helicopter and including at least one of the following capabilities: maximum speeds and accelerations in all three spatial directions, minimum turning radii for yaw, nose-down, and/or nose-up movements, maximum weight of the transported load, and maximum stresses.

Safety system, a helicopter fitted with such a system, and a safety method seeking to avoid an undesirable event

A method of assisting in the navigation of a rotorcraft by displaying in flight a dynamic representation of the outside world (Me) in the event of a loss of visibility (brown-out/white-out). Front maps with incorporated localization are generated on the basis of front images captured by a set of front cameras. Terrain elevation data is generated from images captured by complementary sets of lateral and rear cameras. In the event of a loss of visibility, a reconstituted world (Mr) is prepared from the front maps with incorporated localization. On request of the pilot, an extrapolated world (Mex) is prepared by adding terrain elevation data to the front maps with incorporated localization, in compliance with the common time and the relative positions of the various sets of cameras between one another.

Method of assisting in the navigation of a rotorcraft by dynamically displaying a representation of the outside world constructed in flight in instantaneous and/or deferred manner

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Nicolas Belanger