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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2015
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Xuchu Ding, Manchester, CT (US);
Jason C. Derenick, Hamden, CT (US);
Brendan J. Englot, New York, NY (US);
Igor Cherepinsky, Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Harshad S. Sane, Southbury, CT (US);
Christopher Stathis, Hamden, CT (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
According to an aspect of the invention, a method of optimal safe landing area determination for an aircraft includes accessing a probabilistic safe landing area map that includes a plurality of probabilistic indicators of safe landing areas for the aircraft. A processing subsystem that includes one or more processing resources generates a list of candidate safe landing areas based on the probabilistic safe landing area map and one or more constraints. At least two of the candidate safe landing areas are provided to a path planner. The list of candidate safe landing areas is ranked based on results from the path planner indicating an estimated cost to reach each of the candidate safe landing areas. Based on the ranking, an indicator of an optimal safe landing area is output as a desired landing location for the aircraft.