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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2008
Fabrice Villaume, Seysses, FR;
Pierre Scacchi, Toulouse, FR;
Fabrice Villaume, Seysses, FR;
Pierre Scacchi, Toulouse, FR;
Airbus Operations SAS, Toulouse, FR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and device for generating an aircraft ground path for piloting an aircraft along the ground of an airport domain. Geographical coordinates of reference points corresponding to a series of elements of the airport domain that the aircraft is to successively follow are obtained and converted to a metric frame. Points of intersection of the successive elements are then determined, as well as an auxiliary path for the aircraft to follow, based on the converted geographical coordinates. A turn at each of the intersection points is next determined, and the aircraft ground path is generated from each of the determined turns.