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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2018
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
The University of Brasilia, Brasilia, BR;
Italo Romani de Oliveira, São José dos Campos, BR;
Vitor Filincowsky Ribeiro, Brasilia, BR;
Li Weigang, Brasilia, BR;
Reinaldo Crispiniano Garcia, Brasilia, BR;
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA, Brasilia, BR;
Abstract
A computing system obtains flight information comprising a plurality of waypoints for each of a plurality of aircraft flight paths, and detects a violation of aircraft separation requirements at a given time instance. Each waypoint specifies an altitude, a longitudinal position, a latitudinal position, a velocity, and a time instance. Detecting the violation comprises selecting a set of time-correlated waypoints from the flight information, each time-correlated waypoint specifying the given time instance. The detecting further comprises selecting a set of altitude-correlated waypoints from the set of time-correlated waypoints, each of the altitude-correlated waypoints being vertically-separated from at least one other altitude-correlated waypoint by less than a threshold vertical separation. The detecting further comprises determining that first and second position-correlated waypoints from the set of altitude-correlated waypoints are vertically-separated from each other by less than the threshold vertical separation and horizontally-separated from each other by less than a threshold horizontal separation.