Navigation beacons may be trained to receive signals of opportunity from one or more vehicles, to recognize their own position based on such signals, and to transmit information regarding their own position to one or more other vehicles accordingly. The navigation beacons may be of small size and feature a basic construction including one or more transceivers, power sources and the like, and may communicate via a Bluetooth® Low Energy, Ultra Wideband or long-range low-power wireless standard, or any other standard. The navigation beacons may be installed in any location, preferably being mounted to one or more existing fixed structures or facilities (e.g., transportation structures or facilities), and may operate in active and/or passive modes when learning their positions or servicing position information to one or more remote devices.

In some examples, a system includes a transceiver configured to transmit a first surveillance message at a first power level at or below a first maximum power level. The system also includes processing circuitry coupled to the transceiver, the processing circuitry configured to determine that a threshold condition exists. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine a second maximum power level in response to determining that the threshold condition exists, where the second maximum power level is lower than the first maximum power level. The transceiver is configured to transmit, in response to the processing circuitry determining that the threshold condition exists, a second surveillance message at a second power level, wherein the second power level is at or below the second maximum power level.

The present invention achieves technical advantages as a pilot and passenger seating. An aircraft employs a pilot seat, comprising a contoured structure having ergonomically formed and padded surfaces, with left and right arm supports that include an articulated control knob, movable in three rectangular axes and rotatable about a vertical axis to provide one or more aircraft steering functions for an aircraft, and a touch-sensitive control surface for controlling one or more power system components. A passenger seat, having a contoured structure, having ergonomically formed and padded surfaces, a headrest, a seat, a left support member, and a right support member are adapted to cradle a portion of a passenger's body to support the passenger during travel.

A system aggregates data related to a non-conformance system in an aircraft and allocates resources to repairing the non-conformance condition. The system includes a service bus that receives and distributes the non-conformance condition and an optimizer tool that generates repair alternatives. The optimizer tool allows dynamic reconfiguration of rules to activate and deactivate or change a weight of individual rules in a rule set.

In some examples, a system includes a memory configured to store a buffer storing volumetric weather data. The system also includes processing circuitry configured to retrieve weather radar data from the buffer by retrieving a first reflectivity value associated with a first cell of the buffer, where the first cell represents a first volume of space. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine an altitude of a first location based on a parameter and an altitude extent of the first volume of space. The altitude of the first location is lower than an altitude of a centroid of the first volume of space. The processing circuitry is also configured to associate the first reflectivity value with the first location.

In some embodiments, a method comprises: identifying past trips, each of the past trips having a past trip characteristic similar to a particular trip characteristic of a particular trip; obtaining a vehicle identifier used during each of the past trips; obtaining status of one or more onboard services provided during each of the past trips; generating interface data representing: a past trip header, the past trip characteristic for each of the past trips, the vehicle identifier used during each of the past trips, an icon for each of the past trips having a feature indicating the status of one or more onboard services provided during the past trip, and an additional icon indicating status of onboard services provided during the particular trip; transmitting the interface data to cause a display device to generate/display a viewer.

An architecture for monitoring at least one aircraft. The architecture comprises an avionics system configured to generate avionics data during use of the aircraft; a mobile electronic device including an analysis unit configured to convert at least one maintenance operation into operational data; and an alerter configured to display at least one item of monitoring information; and a cloud computing infrastructure. The analysis unit and the alerter are configured to implement a local operating mode and an operating mode connected to the cloud computing infrastructure.

Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition and transcription to provide a conversation log graphical user interface (GUI) display that consolidates communications with respect to the vehicle. One method involves receiving a data message from a system onboard the vehicle and generating a graphical representation of the data message within the conversation log GUI display, wherein the graphical representation of the data message includes a selectable element and is displayed on the conversation log GUI display concurrently with a graphical representation of a transcription of an audio communication with respect to the vehicle. The depicted data message and transcription are chronologically positioned with respect to one another in accordance with a timestamp associated with the data message. The conversation log GUI display dynamically updates in response to selection of the selectable element.

Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining a capability of a vehicle for dispatch. The method may include receiving vehicle data from a vehicle located at or near a vehicle port, and a dispatch schedule, for a fleet of vehicles, from a dispatch service. The method may also include analyzing the received data to determine at least a dispatch capability of the vehicle and a maintenance state of the vehicle, the determined dispatch capability being one of authorization for dispatch with no maintenance alert, authorization for dispatch with at least one maintenance alert, or prohibition of dispatch with at least one maintenance alert. The method may further include identifying a vehicle for dispatch, and outputting the identified vehicle for dispatch to the dispatch service, and outputting the determined maintenance state of the vehicle to at least one of the dispatch service and a vehicle maintenance service.

A common command and control architecture (alternatively termed herein as a “universal control architecture”) is disclosed that allows different unmanned systems, including different types of unmanned systems (e.g., air, ground, and/or maritime unmanned systems), to be controlled simultaneously through a common control device (e.g., a controller that can be an input and/or output device). The universal control architecture brings significant efficiency gains in engineering, deployment, training, maintenance, and future upgrades of unmanned systems. In addition, the disclosed common command and control architecture breaks the traditional stovepipe development involving deployment models and thus reducing hardware and software maintenance, creating a streamlined training/proficiency initiative, reducing physical space requirements for transport, and creating a scalable, more connected interoperable approach to control of unmanned systems over existing unmanned systems technology.