JPH0896300A - Monitoring device for operation of movable body - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To grasp a movable body and the peripheral state of the movable body by displaying symbols expressing the position and state of the movable body on map information and displaying the states of facilitates related to the movable body also as symbols. CONSTITUTION: A computer 11 to be an operation managing terminal equipment processes information sent from a host computer and displays the processed result on a display device 13. The terminal equipment visualizes various information by GUI, displays the visualized information at real time and can execute all the operations with a mouse 17. Main functions are tracking function for mapping the flying position of aircraft on a map as a flight mark at real time and displaying and moving the mark, a flight information inquiring function for clicking a flight mark by the use of the mouse 17 to inquire a flight sort, the number of passengers, etc., an airport warning display function for displaying an airport mark on an airport position on the map, and when the weather of the airport becomes worse, changing marks/colors at real time in accordance with the degree of weather, a various-warning display function for displaying other warning marks, and so on.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a moving body operation monitoring device for monitoring a moving body such as an aircraft, a ship, an automobile, a railroad, and a human.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when communicating with a plurality of moving bodies, as shown in FIG. 23, the user specifies some attribute (type of moving body, etc.) and automatically extracts the corresponding moving bodies. Or, it is necessary to visually recognize a plurality of mobile body attributes displayed on the character terminal, select a necessary mobile body, and perform communication. In such a method, a complicated procedure has to be used when communicating with a group of mobile objects having various attributes existing in an arbitrary area.

Further, when a mobile unit is conventionally managed by using a plurality of terminals, as shown in FIG. 24, the mobile unit information sent from a host computer that integrally manages the mobile unit group is used as a character terminal. The position of the moving body was grasped by outputting it as character information to. Alternatively, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the position of the moving body is grasped by using a graphic terminal to symbolize the moving body and display it together with a map of the range in which the moving body exists.

[0004] For example, aircraft operation management work is performed by the planner section and the radio section. In the planner section, a flight implementation plan (flight route, flight altitude, onboard fuel, etc.) that meets various conditions such as weather, type of aircraft, and number of passengers is determined. In the radio section,
By communicating wirelessly to the aircraft in flight,
Exchange various information. In order to carry out such operation management work, it is necessary to obtain various information such as weather conditions at the destination airport, aircraft information (model, number of passengers, fuel on board, etc.), obstacles on the route, etc. Conventionally, this information is confirmed by operating the keyboard from the terminal of the host computer and referring to the inquired character information. This information confirmation method has limitations,
When the number of flights of aircraft is expected to increase with the start of operation at the new airport, it is necessary to reduce the work load by improving the visibility of various information and improving the operability of obtaining information.

[0005]

In order to efficiently manage the operation of a moving body, it is necessary to post information on the operating environment around the moving body such as facilities and weather to the operation manager in addition to information on the moving body. is there. However, it is difficult for the character terminal used in the conventional operation management terminal to efficiently transmit such information to the operation manager, and it is not easy for the operation manager to quickly judge the situation. Even when a graphic terminal was used, the symbol of the moving body was used, but the situation of the operating environment, which is important for the operation management of the moving body, and the presence or absence of the moving body affected by the change of the operating environment Since it is not displayed, there was a problem that the operation manager could not easily understand the situation.

Further, as the number of mobile units to be managed increases, the display information on the display device also increases, and it is difficult to judge an accurate situation only by the visual sense of the manager.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and not only symbolizes the information of the moving body, but also symbolizes the situation of the facility and the operating environment, and changes with the operating environment. The object is to obtain a mobile body operation monitoring device that also displays the affected mobile body. Furthermore, it aims to obtain a mobile operation monitoring device that can assist the operation manager in making quick and accurate situation decisions by using voices and warning sounds together as necessary to call the operation manager's attention. .

[0008]

A mobile body operation monitoring apparatus according to the present invention is characterized by including the following elements. (A) Information receiving means for receiving information on the facility used by the moving body, (b) Displaying the moving body and the facility using symbols on the map information, and changing the information on the facility received by the information receiving means. Display means for changing the display format of the symbol of the facility displayed on the map information based on.

The mobile operation monitoring apparatus according to the present invention is characterized by including the following elements. (A) information receiving means for receiving information on the operating environment of the moving body, (b) displaying the moving body using symbols on the map information, and based on the information on the operating environment received by the information receiving means, A display means for displaying the operating environment of a moving body using symbols on the map information.

The mobile operation monitoring apparatus according to the present invention is characterized by including the following elements. (A) Information receiving means for receiving information on the mobile body and information on the facility used by the mobile body, (b) Information fusion means for judging the relevance of the information on the mobile body and information on the facility, (c) ) A display means for displaying a mobile object on the map information by using a symbol and changing the display format of the symbol of the mobile object displayed on the map information based on the above-mentioned relevance.

A mobile body operation monitoring apparatus according to the present invention is characterized by including the following elements. (A) Information receiving means for receiving information on the moving body and information on the operating environment of the moving body, (b) Information fusing means for judging the relationship between the information on the moving body and information on the operating environment, (c) ) A display means for displaying a mobile object on the map information by using a symbol and changing the display format of the symbol of the mobile object displayed on the map information based on the above-mentioned relevance.

The information receiving means further receives the actual movement route of the moving body and the planned movement route of the moving body, and the display means displays the actual movement route of the moving body and the scheduled movement route on the map information. It is characterized by displaying a moving route.

The above-described mobile body operation monitoring device is further characterized by including a warning generating means for generating a warning when the display content changes the display content.

[0014]

In the present invention, the status of the facility used by the moving body is displayed.

Further, in the present invention, the operating environment in which the moving body is placed is displayed.

Further, according to the present invention, the symbol of the moving body affected by the change in the situation of the facility is changed and displayed.

Further, in the present invention, the symbol of the moving body which is affected by the change of the operating environment is changed and displayed.

Further, in the present invention, the moving route of the moving body is displayed so that the relation between the facility situation and the operating environment can be easily grasped.

Further, in the present invention, a warning is issued in addition to the change in the display.

[0020]

【Example】

Example 1. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a conceptual configuration diagram of a mobile body monitoring device according to the present invention. 2 and 3 show system configuration diagrams. The mobile body monitoring device is composed of a host computer 1 and operation management terminal devices 3-1 to 3-n, and these are connected via a G / W (gateway) 6 to a WAN 2 which is a wide area communication network.

The host computer 1 is installed in a place such as a central operation management center that generally controls the operation of the mobile body. The host computer 1 collectively receives information from the moving body via the information collecting device 5, performs processing necessary for distributing the information, and manages the operation installed at a point serving as a base of the moving body. Information is distributed to the terminal devices 3-1 to 3-n.

Next, the configuration of the operation management terminal device will be described. FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the operation management terminal device. The terminal computer 11 is connected to the Ethernet 4, which is a local network, via the transceiver 14. The terminal computer 11 has a display device 1
3, a keyboard 12, a mouse 17, and a speaker 16 are connected.

The terminal computer 11 processes the information sent from the host computer 1 via the Ethernet 4 and displays it on the display device 13. The operator uses the keyboard 12 and the mouse 17 to input data to the terminal computer 11. From the speaker 16, a warning sound or voice is output.

Next, a processing operation of the operation management terminal device (hereinafter, simply referred to as a terminal device) according to the embodiment will be described. FIG. 5 shows information input to the terminal device.
The terminal device is a GUI (Graphical User).
Various information is visualized and displayed in real time by the interface, and all operations can be performed with a mouse without using a keyboard to improve the visibility and operability of information. The main functions are as follows. (1) Tracking function The flight position of the aircraft is mapped as a flight mark in real time on a map and displayed for movement. (2) Flight information inquiry function Inquiry of flight information such as model, number of passengers, fuel on board, etc., which was conventionally done by inputting flight number from the terminal of the host computer, is realized by clicking the flight mark with the mouse. , Improve operability. The query result is displayed in a popup window. (3) Airport warning display function The airport mark is displayed at the airport position on the map, and when the weather at the airport deteriorates, the mark / color corresponding to the degree of deterioration changes in real time. At the same time, even for flights that are flying with the weather-deteriorated airport as the destination airport, the color is changed in real time according to the flight mark and the degree of deterioration. (4) Other various warning displays If the aircraft sways significantly during flight, or if there is a malfunction in the wireless flight assistance facility (hereinafter referred to as transit point), a warning mark will be displayed at the corresponding position on the map. To do. (5) Map enlargement / movement function The map displayed on the screen can be freely enlarged / moved by operating the mouse. The above (3) airport warning display function and (4) other various warning displays will be further described below.

FIG. 6 shows the flow of processing in the terminal device. Here, it is assumed that the host computer 1 sends airport facility information, aircraft information, and weather information to the terminal device.

FIG. 7 shows an example of airport facility information. The airport facility information is, for example, information indicating a state such as whether a certain airport is in normal operation, partially in operation, closed, or temporarily closed. When the vehicle is not in normal operation, it indicates the cause of fire, accident, damage, etc.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of aircraft information. The aircraft information is information indicating whether each aircraft is flying normally or has a failure. In addition, it is information indicating the actual route, the planned route, the current altitude and speed, the number of passengers, the fuel, the model, or the like.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of weather information.
The weather information is information indicating whether it is normal weather or abnormal weather for each area. In the case of abnormal weather, it is information indicating whether the cause is typhoon, rain, snow, or wind. In addition, the place where the turbulence is generated is part of the weather information.

The various information shown in FIGS. 6, 7, and 8 is sent from the host computer to the terminal device.
The received data is taken into the terminal device by the data reception process 21, and the airport facility information processing 22, the aircraft information processing 23, and the weather information processing 24 are performed for each type of data. By these processes, detailed data on airport facilities, aircraft, and weather can be obtained. In response to this result, the symbol generation processing 26 determines the symbol to be output to the display device.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing symbols used by the symbol generation processing 26. The symbol 31 is an aircraft, the symbol 35 is an ordinary airport, the symbol 42 is an abnormal airport, the symbol 34 is a stopover, the symbol 43 is an abnormal stopover, and the symbol 52 is abnormal weather. The display process 27 is
This symbol is output to the display processing device. Further, when it is necessary to generate an alarm, the alarm generation processing 28 issues an alarm.

FIG. 11 shows an example of a normal display on the terminal device. The symbol 31 represents an aircraft that is a moving body. The symbol 32 represents a route that has already flown, and the symbol 33 represents a route that is planned to fly. Symbol 3
It is desirable to use different symbol patterns or different colors for the 2 and the symbol 33 in order to distinguish the actual result and the schedule.
Further, symbol 34 represents a waypoint and symbol 35 represents an airport. FIG. 11 shows that the aircraft 31 is going to the airport 35 while passing through the waypoint 34.

FIG. 12 is a display example when a failure occurs at the airport. The symbol 42 represents an airport in which a failure has occurred.

FIG. 13 shows a display example when a failure occurs at the waypoint. A symbol 43 represents a stopover where a failure has occurred.

FIG. 14 shows an example in which an abnormal weather occurs near the planned route of the aircraft. The symbol 52 represents the position where the abnormal weather occurs.

As described above, this embodiment is characterized in that, in the moving body operation monitoring apparatus for displaying the moving body on the map information, the status of the facility related to the moving body is displayed in any color and in any shape. I am trying.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that the actual movement route until the moving body moves to the present position and the movement route to be moved from now on are displayed in arbitrary colors and arbitrary shapes.

Further, it is characterized in that when a change in the operating environment such as a change in the situation of a facility or the occurrence of a failure occurs, a voice or a warning sound is given to notify the change.

Further, according to this embodiment, the position of the moving body can be easily recognized by displaying the moving body by the symbol and displaying the map showing the position.

Further, an arbitrary area can be designated with a mouse.

Furthermore, by adopting a window-based user interface such as a communication message creation window, a moving object attribute display window, a moving object selection window, etc., it is possible to perform communication work efficiently.

Example 2. FIG. 15 shows a processing flow of the terminal device in this embodiment. The flow of the process shown in FIG. 15 is characterized in that an information fusion process 25 is newly added as compared with the flow of the process of the terminal device shown in FIG. The information fusion processing 25 is to obtain the mutual relation of three data of airport facility, aircraft, and weather.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing the operation of the information fusion processing 25. The information fusion processing 25 inputs the airport facility information and checks whether or not there is a facility where a failure has occurred. If there is a facility with a failure, the facility with the failure is output to the symbol generation processing 26, and the aircraft heading for the facility with the failure is identified and output to the symbol generation processing 26. To do. Further, the information fusion processing 25 inputs weather information and checks whether abnormal weather has occurred. When the abnormal weather occurs, the place where the abnormal temper is generated is output to the symbol generation processing 26, and the aircraft heading for the place where the abnormal weather is generated is identified to perform the symbol generation processing. To 26. When there is no facility where an abnormality has occurred and when abnormal weather does not occur, the processing is terminated without doing anything. The symbol generation processing 26 is the information fusion processing 2
Determine the symbol based on the output from 5. It is assumed that the symbol generation processing 26 stores the symbols shown in FIG. 17 in addition to the symbols shown in FIG. The symbol 31 is an ordinary aircraft, the symbol 41 is an aircraft heading for an airport where a failure has occurred, and the symbol 51 is an aircraft heading for a place where abnormal weather occurs.

FIG. 18 is a display example when a failure occurs at the airport. The symbol 42 represents an airport in which a failure has occurred. By the information fusion processing, the aircraft whose destination is this airport is identified, and its symbol becomes the symbol 41 indicating the abnormality of the airport.

FIG. 19 shows an example in which an abnormal weather occurs near the planned route of the aircraft. Symbol 52 represents the position where the abnormal weather occurred. In response to this result, the information fusion process identifies the aircraft scheduled to fly near this abnormal weather point, and its symbol becomes a symbol 51 indicating that there is abnormal weather near the flight route.

As described above, in this embodiment, when the information on the facility related to the moving body and the information on the moving body are fused and the change in the situation of the facility related to the moving body affects the operation of the moving body, It is characterized in that the display symbol of the moving body related to the facility is displayed in a color and a shape indicating that the situation of the facility is affected.

Further, when the information on the operating environment and the information on the moving body are fused, and when a change in the operating environment such as the occurrence of a failure affects the operation of the moving body, the display symbol of the moving body related to the operating environment is used as the operating environment. It is characterized in that it is displayed in a color and a shape indicating that there is an influence of the change of.

As described above, in the moving body monitoring device,
Since it becomes possible to symbolize the environment around the moving body, fuse the moving body information of the operating environment information, and call attention by voice and warning sound, it is possible to manage the operation quickly, accurately and efficiently.

Example 3. As shown in FIGS. 20 and 21, the connection form between the host computer and the terminal device is WA.
A network configuration that does not use N may be used. Further, as shown in FIG. 22, the host computer and the terminal are not connected by the network, and
It may be a stand-alone type system in which the computer 15 and the computer 15 are directly connected.

Example 4. In the above embodiment, the aircraft is described as an example of the moving body, but the moving body may be a moving body such as a ship, a car, a train, a human being, or an animal.

[0050]

According to the present invention, in addition to the display of the symbol indicating the position of the moving body and the state of the moving body on the map information, the situation of the facility related to the moving body is symbolized and displayed. It becomes possible to grasp the state of the environment around the body and the moving body.

Further, according to the present invention, in addition to the display of the symbol indicating the position of the moving body and the state of the moving body on the map information, the operating environment such as an obstacle affecting the operation of the moving body is symbolized. Since it is displayed as, it is possible to grasp the situation of the moving body and the environment around the moving body.

Further, according to the present invention, when the situation of the facility relating to the operation of the mobile object changes, the situation of the facility and the information of the mobile object are organically combined to obtain the symbol of the affected mobile object. Since it is changed automatically, it is possible to quickly respond to changes in the operating environment.

Further, according to the present invention, when a change in the operating environment such as a meteorological obstacle occurs, the information of the operating environment and the information of the moving body are organically combined so that the symbol of the affected moving body is automatically detected. Since it is changed to, it becomes possible to quickly respond to changes in the operating environment.

Further, according to the present invention, by combining with the above-mentioned invention, the moving route of the moving body before and after the present time can be grasped, and the operating environment and the future influence of the moving body can be grasped. It becomes possible to understand the operating environment that may be received and to respond promptly.

Further, according to the present invention, by combining with the above-mentioned invention, the number of display information on the operation monitoring device increases, and it becomes difficult to visually monitor the operation status and operation environment of the moving body. In such a case, it becomes possible to support the grasp of the operating environment by, for example, issuing a sound or a warning sound to call the attention of the operation manager.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual configuration diagram showing an entire mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram showing the entire mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a hardware configuration diagram showing the entire mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a terminal device of the mobile operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of information input to the terminal device of the mobile operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a process of a terminal device of the mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of aviation facility information of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of aircraft information of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of weather information of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a symbol of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram of the mobile operation monitoring device of the present invention.
It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the terminal device at the time of normal.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram of the mobile operation monitoring device of the present invention.
It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a terminal device when abnormality generate | occur | produces in an airport.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.
It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a terminal device when abnormality generate | occur | produces in a waypoint.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram of the mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.
It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a terminal device when abnormal weather occurs.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing a process of the terminal device of the mobile operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an operation of information fusion processing of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of a symbol of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram of the mobile operation management device of the present invention.
It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a terminal device when abnormality generate | occur | produces in an airport and the information fusion process was implemented.

FIG. 19 is a block diagram of the mobile operation management device of the present invention,
It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a terminal device when abnormal weather occurs and information fusion processing is implemented.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing another example of the mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing another example of the mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing another example of the mobile body operation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a display example of a conventional moving body.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing a display example of a conventional moving body.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing a display example of a conventional moving body.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 host computer, 2 WAN, 3-1 1st terminal device, 3-2 2nd terminal device, 3-n nth terminal device, 4 Ethernet, 5 information collection device, 6G / W
(Gateway), 11 Terminal computer, 12
Keyboard, 13 display, 14 transceiver, 16 speaker, 17 mouse, 21 data reception processing, 22 airport facility information processing, 23 aircraft information processing, 24 weather information processing, 25 information fusion processing, 26 symbol generation processing, 27 display processing, 28 Warning generation process, 31 aircraft, 32 actual flight route, 33 planned flight route, 34 waypoints, 35 airports, 41 aircraft, 4
2 Abnormal airport, 51 aircraft, 52 abnormal weather.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A mobile body operation monitoring device comprising the following elements: (a) information receiving means for receiving information about facilities used by mobile bodies, (b) mobile bodies and facilities using symbols on map information. Display means for displaying and changing the display format of the symbol of the facility displayed on the map information based on the change of the information on the facility received by the information receiving means. 2. A mobile body operation monitoring device comprising the following elements: (a) information receiving means for receiving information on the operating environment of the mobile body, and (b) displaying the mobile body with symbols on the map information. Display means for displaying the operating environment of the mobile body by using symbols on the map information based on the information on the operating environment received by the information receiving means. 3. A moving body operation monitoring device comprising the following elements: (a) information about a moving body, information receiving means for receiving information about a facility used by the moving body, (b) information about the moving body, Information fusion means for judging the relevance to the information about the facility, (c) the moving object is displayed on the map information by using a symbol, and the symbol of the moving object displayed on the map information is based on the above-mentioned relationship. Display means to change the display format of. 4. A mobile body operation monitoring device comprising the following elements: (a) information regarding the mobile body, information receiving means for receiving information regarding the operating environment of the mobile body, (b) information regarding the mobile body, and operation. An information fusion means for judging the relevance to the information on the environment, (c) the moving body is displayed on the map information by using a symbol, and the symbol of the moving body displayed on the map information is based on the relation. Display means to change the display format of. 5. The information receiving means further receives the actual movement route of the mobile body and the planned movement route of the mobile body, and the display means displays the actual movement route of the mobile body and the mobile body on the map information. The mobile operation monitoring device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the planned travel route is displayed. 6. The mobile body operation monitoring device further comprises a warning generation means for generating a warning when the display means changes the display content. Mobile operation monitoring device.