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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2023
U.s. Army Devcom, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD (US);
Mahdi Al-Husseini, Douglasville, GA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems and associated methods for calculating and displaying formation flight information, to include aircraft spacing, predicted trajectory data, and lost visual contact alerts, on an augmented reality display designed to interface with aviation helmets. The augmented reality display device collects imagery of a leading aircraft from the vantage point of a pilot in a trailing aircraft. The collected imagery is processed through object detection, tracking, and orientation estimation techniques that return the leading aircraft's distance, direction, and orientation. The estimated leading aircraft data informs a generated virtual overlay. The generated virtual overlay is transmitted to the augmented reality display for viewing by the pilot in the trailing aircraft. The display of relevant formation flight information using augmented reality tools may result in improved formation flight spacing, emergency procedure response, and collision avoidance.