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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2005
Henrik Hammarlund, Linkoping, SE;
Bengt-goran Sundqvist, Linkoping, SE;
Henrik Hammarlund, Linkoping, SE;
Bengt-Goran Sundqvist, Linkoping, SE;
Saab AB, Linköping, SE;
Abstract
A system and a method for automatically avoiding collisions between own aircraft and other aircraft. The system includes a computing unit configured to compute a fly away path for own aircraft, a sender configured to send the computed own fly away path to the other aircraft, a receiver configured to receive fly away paths from the other aircraft, and a collision handler configured to detect an approaching collision based on the own fly away path and the fly away paths received from the other aircraft, and activating a fly away maneuver upon detecting an approaching collision. The collision handler is adapted to receive information about commanded maneuvers of own aircraft, and to detect an approaching collision based on own aircraft maneuvers commanded during a time period between sending the computed own fly away path to the other aircraft and detecting the approaching collision.