US 8,527,133 B2Granted

Device for managing piloting tasks carried out by a crew of an aircraft

AssigneeThales

InventorsFabien Guilley, Gabrielle De Brito, Gilles Francois

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Abstract

The present invention lies in the field of embedded flight management systems on board aircraft. The invention relates notably to a system for managing alerts and procedures, and more precisely to a device for managing piloting tasks carried out by a crew of an aircraft. The device for managing tasks (1) according to the invention comprises: a module for managing alerts (4) generating alerts as a function of information originating from systems (2) of the aircraft, said module for managing alerts (4) being associated with a first display system (5) and with a first monitoring panel (7); a module for managing tasks (8) creating a task on receipt of an alert requiring at least one action on the part of the crew, creating a task associated with a procedure, said module for managing tasks (8) being associated with a second display system (11) and with a second monitoring panel (14); a module for managing a procedure (16) corresponding to a task selected by the crew, said module for managing a procedure (16) being associated with a third display system (17) and with a third monitoring panel (18).

A device for managing alerts and piloting tasks carried out by a crew of an aircraft, the device comprising:

an alert displaying module;
an alert monitoring panel configured for interactive management of displayed alerts by the crew;
a module for managing alerts configured to perform steps comprising:
generating alerts on receipt of information originating from a first system of the aircraft or on receipt of data if the received data is interpreted as an alert;
sorting the generated alerts according to a level of seriousness of each generated alert and generating a corresponding list of alerts;
managing the list of alerts by performing steps comprising:
displaying the list of alerts on the alert displaying module;
and
deleting a first alert from the list of alerts when receiving a delete alert order originating from the alert monitoring panel or when a task corresponding to the first alert is deleted;
and
transmitting the list of alerts to a module for managing tasks;
a task displaying module;
a task monitoring panel configured for interactive management by the crew of displayed tasks by selecting or deleting a displayed task or inserting a task;
the module for managing tasks configured to perform steps comprising:
creating a task:
on receipt of a second alert, the second alert being generated by the module for managing alerts and indicating a processing procedure to be carried out by the crew, the task being associated with the processing procedure, or
associated with an operational procedure, or
associated with a procedure selected by the crew via the task monitoring panel from among a set of operational procedures that is presented by a procedure displaying module, the set of operational procedures being stored in a first database, or
on receipt of actions to be carried out originating from an avionics systems;
transmitting a list of tasks to be displayed to the task displaying module;
deleting a first task when receiving an order to delete the first task by the crew via the task monitoring panel or when a corresponding alert is deleted;
and
selecting a task to be transmitted to a module for managing procedures according to the task monitoring panel;
a procedure displaying module;
and
a procedure monitoring panel configured for interactive management of displayed procedures by the crew by selecting a displayed action of a procedure;
wherein the module for managing procedures is configured to perform steps comprising:
searching in a database for a procedure to be displayed according to a selected task, the procedure to be displayed comprising a list of at least one action to be carried out;
and
transmitting the procedure to be displayed to the procedure displaying module.

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