Control system and method
AssigneeBAE SYSTEMS plc
InventorsJustin Mark Dee, Peter Stuart Maley
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Abstract
A control system for assisting a pilot to control an aircraft operating under control of an active inceptor, the control system comprising: a receiver for receiving pilot-inputs on an active inceptor, an instruction generator to generate an instruction, the instruction based on an external signal associated with the geographical location of the aircraft; a tactile cue generator to generates a tactile cue which causes the active inceptor to move from a nominal position to a first offset position within a predetermined time period in response to the instruction.
Claims18
A method for assisting a pilot to control a taxiing aircraft operating under control of an active inceptor via a control system, the method comprising:
- receiving, from the pilot, an input on the active inceptor wherein the active inceptor is in a nominal position;
- receiving an instruction from the control system based on an external signal associated with a geographical location of the aircraft;
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- outputting, in response to the received instruction, a tactile cue in a particular direction the aircraft should be directed based on the geographical location of the aircraft, which causes the active inceptor to move from the nominal position to an offset position within a predetermined period of time,
- wherein the tactile cue comprises a corresponding tactile force in the particular direction summed with the input on the active inceptor received from the pilot.
A control system for assisting a pilot to control an aircraft operating under control of an active inceptor, the control system comprising:
- a receiver for receiving pilot-inputs on the active inceptor;
- an instruction generator to generate an instruction, the instruction based on an external signal associated with the geographical location of the aircraft;
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- a tactile cue generator configured to generate a tactile cue in a particular direction the aircraft should be directed based on the geographical location of the aircraft, which causes the active inceptor to move from a nominal position to an offset position in a predetermined time period in response to the instruction,
- wherein the tactile cue comprises a corresponding tactile force in the particular direction summed with the input on the active inceptor received from the pilot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.