Nicholas J Visser

US Patent:

20180096608, Apr 5, 2018

Filed:

Sep 30, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/282003

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
MacKenzie CUMINGS - Grand Rapids MI, US
Mark Lawrence DARNELL - Grand Rapids MI, US
David LAX - Grand Rapids MI, US
Liling REN - Niskayuna NY, US
Nicholas VISSER - Grand Rapids MI, US

International Classification:

G08G 5/00
G05D 1/10

Abstract:

A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a prescribed flight from at least one of an airborne system of a particular aircraft to execute the prescribed flight and a system other than the airborne system of the particular aircraft having a source of data related to the prescribed flight, the flight data including specific details relating to at least one of the particular aircraft and parameters of the prescribed flight; performing, by a processor of an external computational asset and based on the obtained flight data, a control optimization to generate optimized path specific controls for the prescribed flight; transmitting the optimized path specific controls via a communication uplink from the external computational asset to the particular aircraft; and guiding, in response to receiving the optimized path specific controls by the particular aircraft, the particular aircraft in accordance with the optimized path specific controls to execute the prescribed flight.