JP5524116B2 - Navigation support device - Google Patents

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to a navigation support apparatus that supports navigation using information transmitted from another aircraft.

  In order to ensure flight safety of an aircraft, the aircraft is monitored using a radar such as an SSR device (mode S secondary monitoring radar device) that transmits and receives an inquiry signal and a response signal. In addition, in order to prevent a collision between aircrafts, broadcast-type automatic dependent surveillance (ADS-B) that exchanges position information between aircrafts is also used.

  On the other hand, information such as turbulence that affects the flight of the aircraft has been acquired as a voice warning from the controller, or from a short-range weather radar device that is mounted on time.

  As described above, in the multilateration system, when an interrogation signal is transmitted regardless of the operation of the secondary monitoring radar, there is a possibility that the detection rate of the secondary monitoring radar is lowered to hinder the monitoring of the aircraft.

JP 2008-241545 A JP 2005-140795 A

“Aeronautical Telecommunications, ANNEX10, VOLUMEIV”, Surveillance Radar and Collision Avoidance Systems, July 1996, page 3-55 (section 3.1.2.8.6), ICAO

  Therefore, the present invention provides a navigation support apparatus that supports navigation using information transmitted from other aircraft.

  A navigation support apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a list generation unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. When the signal generated by the transponder and transmitted by the ADS-B device mounted on another aircraft is input, the list generation unit transmits the signal to generate a list of aircraft. The determination means determines whether or not a value indicating a flight state included in a signal transmitted from an aircraft selected from the list generated by the list generation means is within a predetermined range. The output means outputs a warning signal as an output signal when the value is outside the predetermined range in the determination means.

It is a block diagram explaining the navigation support device concerning an embodiment. It is a block diagram explaining the structure of a transmission / reception apparatus. It is a timing chart of the signal which a transmission / reception apparatus transmits / receives.

  Below, the navigation assistance apparatus which concerns on embodiment is demonstrated using drawing. The navigation support apparatus according to the embodiment is an apparatus that is mounted on an aircraft, receives a signal transmitted from another aircraft, analyzes the flight status of the other aircraft, and executes navigation support.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the navigation support apparatus 10 according to the embodiment includes a transponder 11 that transmits and receives signals via an antenna 12, an output device 13 such as a display, and an input device 14 such as operation buttons and a keyboard. It is connected.

  When the navigation support apparatus 10 receives a signal from the transponder 11, the list generation means 101 that generates the list data D using the received signal, the output means 102 that outputs the list data D to the output apparatus 13, and the input apparatus 14, an input unit 103 for inputting an aircraft selection signal in the list data D, an acquisition unit 104 for acquiring flight information of an aircraft designated by the input selection signal, and whether or not a warning is required using the acquisition result And a determination unit 105 that determines and outputs to the output unit 102.

  The transponder 11 connected to the navigation support device 10 is a transponder mounted on a general aircraft for transmitting and receiving signals to and from the ground radar device, and the navigation support device 10 receives the transponder 11. The analyzed ADS-B signal is input.

  When the analysis result of the ADS-B signal output from the transponder 11 is input to the list generating means 101, the list data D including the aircraft data included in the ADS-B signal is generated and stored in the memory. Output to the output means 102. This ADS-B signal is a signal transmitted by an ATC transponder mounted on an aircraft, and includes an identification code of the aircraft, altitude, latitude, longitude, speed at which the aircraft is present, an ascending rate (or descending rate), a nose direction, etc. Is included.

  When the output unit 102 receives the list data D generated by the list generation unit 101, the output unit 102 outputs the input list data D to the output device 13. For example, when the output device 13 is a display, the output unit 102 displays list data D of the display that is the output device 13.

  The list data D output to the output device 13 is, for example, data as shown in FIG. 2, and the list generation means 101 updates the list data D when new data is input. The output device 13 updates the list data D by deleting data that has passed a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds). Therefore, the output device 13 is configured to display the latest data.

  When the selection signal for selecting any of the aircrafts output to the output device 13 is input via the input device 14, the input unit 103 outputs data relating to the selected aircraft to the acquisition unit 104. Here, when a plurality of aircrafts fly, they often fly on the same route. Therefore, if the data of the aircraft preceding the aircraft can be acquired, it can be used as useful information. In addition, when there is a voice exchange between the aircraft and the control engine or the like, the operator can listen to the voice exchange between other adjacent aircraft. Therefore, the pilot can acquire the effective information by selecting the optimum preceding aircraft from the aircraft output to the output device 13.

  The acquisition unit 104 acquires the flight status of the aircraft from the aircraft selected according to the data input from the input unit 103 and outputs it to the determination unit 105. For example, when the ADS-B signal is used, the acquisition unit 104 analyzes the ADS-B signal of the corresponding aircraft from the newly input ADS-B signal, and determines the flight situation included in the analysis result. It outputs to the means 105. Alternatively, when using a signal including the contents of the GICB register, the acquisition unit 104 transmits a signal requesting the selected aircraft to transmit the contents of the GICB register, and is transmitted from the aircraft in response to the transmitted signal. A signal including the contents of the GICB register is received, the received signal is analyzed, and the flight status of the aircraft is output to the determination means 105.

  If the response signal cannot be received even if the signal is transmitted, the acquisition unit 104 outputs a signal indicating that the signal cannot be received to the determination unit 105. Here, the signal including the contents of the GICB register has a larger number of bits than the ADS-B signal, and a longer time is required for transmission and reception. On the other hand, the ADS-B signal simply receives a signal transmitted unilaterally from the aircraft, but the signal including the contents of the GICB register is a signal (response signal) received in response to a request (question signal). Therefore, it can be acquired with certainty. On the other hand, the acquisition unit 104 may acquire the contents of the GICB register by transmitting a signal requesting the contents of the GICB register when the ADS-B signal cannot be received from the aircraft to be acquired.

  Further, the acquisition unit 104 periodically acquires the flight status of the aircraft until the input unit 103 inputs an operation signal for canceling monitoring via the input device 14, and continues output to the determination unit 15.

  When the signal including the flight status of the aircraft is input, the determination unit 105 determines whether the input data matches a predetermined condition, outputs the determination result to the output unit 102, and causes the output device 13 to output the determination result. . The conditions used here can be input via the input device 14, for example, and can be set at an arbitrary timing. Therefore, the threshold value of the condition may be set before the support by the navigation support device 10, or the threshold value may be set during the support.

  For example, when a response signal cannot be received from an aircraft that has newly transmitted a signal, a determination result indicating that the signal cannot be received is output. Further, for example, when the determination unit 105 becomes unable to receive a signal from an aircraft that has been monitored, the determination unit 105 outputs a determination result indicating that the monitoring is not continued. For example, the determination means outputs a determination result indicating that an abnormality has occurred when a value included in the received signal falls outside a predetermined threshold range for determining the flight state of the aircraft. Note that the output device 102 that outputs a warning signal as a determination result may be a speaker that outputs a warning by voice.

  Specifically, a threshold value for the rate of increase can be set as a value for determining whether or not turbulence has occurred. That is, when turbulence occurs, the aircraft may drop rapidly, and in this case, the rate of increase included in the signal changes rapidly. In addition, altitude, speed, or a value obtained using altitude or speed can be used as a value for determining the flight state of the aircraft.

  Then, the process in the navigation assistance apparatus 10 which concerns on embodiment is demonstrated using the flowchart shown in FIG. Below, the case where the contents of the GICB register are acquired from the beginning, not the case where the ADS-B signal is used for the selected aircraft will be described.

  In the navigation support apparatus 10, first, the list generation unit 101 generates list data D using the analysis result of the input signal (S1). The output unit 102 outputs the list data D generated by the list generation unit 101 to the output device 13 (S13). In the navigation support apparatus 10, when a new signal is received and an analysis result is input thereafter, the list data D is updated by the list generation means 101. However, the update of the list data is omitted in FIG. .

  When any aircraft is selected from the aircraft included in the list data D output to the output device 13 (YES in S3), the acquisition unit 104 requests the selected aircraft to acquire the contents of the GICB register. Is transmitted (S4).

  When a signal responding to the signal transmitted by the acquisition unit 104 cannot be received even after a predetermined time has elapsed (NO in S5), the acquisition unit 104 determines whether monitoring can be continued (S6). Specifically, the acquisition unit 104 determines that monitoring cannot be continued when a signal corresponding to the transmitted question cannot be received even if the transmission of the same process as the process of step S4 is repeated a predetermined number of times, and transmits the question. It is determined that monitoring can be continued when a signal can be received according to.

  If it is determined that the monitoring can be continued (YES in S6), the process returns to step S4. If it is determined that the monitoring cannot be continued (NO in S6), the output unit 102 outputs a warning that there is no response to the output device 13 (S7), and returns to the process of step S3.

  On the other hand, when the signal to which the acquisition unit 104 responds can be received (YES in S5), it is determined whether or not the value representing the flight of the aircraft included in the signal is within the threshold range (S8). If the value included in the signal is outside the threshold range (NO in S8), the output means 102 outputs a warning to that effect (S7) and returns to the processing in step S3.

  When an operation signal for operating the cancellation of monitoring is input via the output device 13 (YES in S9), the monitoring of the specific aircraft is terminated and the process returns to step S3, but when the cancellation is not canceled (NO in S9), the step Returning to S4 processing, the transmission of questions about the same aircraft is repeated.

  As described above, in the navigation support apparatus 10 according to the embodiment, by acquiring information from the preceding aircraft, the acquired information can be used as information useful for the flight of the own aircraft.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was described by embodiment, it should not be understood that the description and drawing which form a part of this indication limit this invention. From this disclosure, various alternative embodiments, examples and operational techniques will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Further, the present invention naturally includes various embodiments not described herein.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Navigation assistance apparatus 101 ... List generation means 102 ... Output means 103 ... Input means 104 ... Acquisition means 105 ... Determination means 11 ... Transponder 12 ... Antenna 13 ... Output device 14 ... Input device 15 ... Determination means

Claims (4)

A navigation support device that is mounted on an aircraft with a transponder that transmits and receives signals and that monitors other aircraft preceding the aircraft,
Includes the aircraft identification code received by the transponder and transmitted by the ADS-B device mounted on the other aircraft, the altitude, latitude and longitude of the aircraft, as well as the speed, rate of climb and nose direction of the aircraft. When a signal is input, list generating means for transmitting the signal and generating a list of aircraft;
A speed, an ascent rate, a nose direction indicating a flight state included in a signal transmitted from an aircraft selected from the list generated by the list generation means , or a value calculated using these is within a predetermined range. Determination means for determining whether or not,
An output means for outputting a warning signal to the output device when the value is outside a predetermined range in the determination means;
A navigation support apparatus comprising: An acquisition means for transmitting a signal requesting the selected aircraft to transmit a signal including the contents of the GICB register ;
The navigation according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit extracts a value indicating a flight state used for determination from a signal including the contents of the GICB register received with respect to the signal transmitted by the acquisition unit. Support device. The acquisition unit transmits a signal requesting transmission of a signal including the contents of the GICB register when the signal transmitted by the ADS-B device mounted on the selected aircraft cannot be received. The navigation support device described in 1. The navigation support apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the output means outputs the warning signal when a signal for a predetermined period cannot be received from the selected aircraft.

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