An urban air mobility system includes aerial vehicles, a detection platform, and a fusion platform. The aerial vehicles include one cooperative aerial vehicle and one data consuming aerial vehicle. The detection platform detects a position of flight objects and transmits first data indicative of the position of the detected flight objects to the fusion platform. The cooperative aerial vehicle detects a relative position of flight objects in its surroundings and transmits second data indicative of the relative position of detected flight objects to the fusion platform. The fusion platform fuses the first data and the second data and generates an air traffic scenario. The data consuming aerial vehicle and the cooperative aerial vehicle receive the air traffic scenario from the fusion platform.

Decision making support is provided. The method comprises receiving input of a current data file, wherein the current data file includes a valid time for features within the current data file. The valid time of the current data file is compared with Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control (AIRAC) cycle effective dates. Responsive to a discrepancy between the valid time of the current data file and the AIRAC cycle effective dates, the system determines if a feature change resulting from the discrepancy is flight critical. The feature change and a proposed solution with suggested text are displayed to a user in a dashboard. Responsive to input of agreement from the user to the proposed solution, the system automatically creates a change notice with the suggested text, a business process management ticket, and a data entry into a database.

Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for evaluating a flight plan with respect to an executed route of an aircraft. An example method includes obtaining data associated with a route of a vehicle. The method further includes determining a first cost index associated with the route based at least in part on a segment of the data. The method further includes comparing the first cost index to a second cost index associated with a plan for the route. The method further includes determining a cost penalty associated with the route based at least in part on the comparison between the first cost index and the second cost index. The method further includes performing one or more actions associated with the vehicle in response to determining the cost penalty.

Presented herein is a method and system for managing one or more missions of a vehicle. The apparatus includes one or more processors configured to control and manage flight missions and includes an active storage for executing a current mission, and a separate passive storage for subsequent missions. Subsequent missions are cued on the second storage to be validated and may be modified in view of additional information, prior to execution for maintaining positive control over the aircraft. The one or more processors are further configured to store a plurality of missions, including the current mission and a second mission, in a data store of a mission manager, each of the plurality of missions including a task graph having selected tasks to be completed for the mission, and a route map including a route for the vehicle to travel on the mission.

A system may include an aircraft sensor and a processor onboard the aircraft. The processor may be configured to: obtain sensor data; obtain a model; based at least on the sensor data and the model, infer trend associated with the sensor data; determine that the trend is to be communicated to an offboard destination; packetize the trend as a packet; tag the packet with information associated with one of at least two priority levels; determine at least part of a route that said tagged packet is to be communicated along based at least on a priority level associated with said tagged packet; and output said tagged packet to an electromagnetic (EM) emitter for communication along said determined at least part of the route.

An aircraft ground anti-collision system and method is disclosed including multiple sensors including an on-board sensor and an off-board sensor, and an obstacle detection processing unit, which is configured to: process data received from the multiple sensors to detect an object around the aircraft and/or a trailer for towing the aircraft, and fuse sensing ranges of the multiple sensors and unify information about the object detected by the multiple sensors in a same coordinate system, to generate a view-angle fused view indicating the detected object. Hence, vision blind areas of a pilot and a ground operator during ground movement of the aircraft can be advantageously eliminated, and the cooperation and scene awareness of the pilot and the ground operator can be improved, thereby reducing the accident rate and improving the safety of the ground movement.

A status notification apparatus acquires face image data of a passenger of an aircraft, the face image data having been acquired at departure/arrival airports and of the aircraft, and acquires, from a storage device in which arrival destination information regarding the arrival destination of the aircraft, the face image data of the passenger, and identification information identifying the passenger are stored in association with each other in advance, the identification information and the arrival destination information corresponding to the acquired face image data. The status notification apparatus acquires a movement status of the passenger, and notifies a service provider at the arrival destination of the acquired movement status and the acquired identification information based on the acquired arrival destination information.

Techniques are disclosed for providing at least one proposed alternative plan of travel of a vehicle are disclosed based upon data of at least one geographic region about at least one of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) spoofing and GNSS jamming. If a current path of travel of the vehicle intersects at least one geographic region of at least one of GNSS spoofing and GNSS jamming, then determining the at least one proposed alternative plan of travel of the vehicle. At least one of the at least one proposed alternative plan of travel includes a path of travel that does not intersect at least one geographic region of the at least one geographic region of at least one of GNSS spoofing and GNSS jamming. The determined at least one proposed alternative plan of travel is sent to the vehicle.

Vehicle systems and methods are provided for updating vehicle systems in response to an update event at one of the vehicle systems, such as, for example, an update at a flight management system (FMS) of an aircraft. One method involves the FMS obtaining event data from an external source indicative of an update event, updating flight data at the FMS to an updated state based at least in part on the event data, and then adding the event data to an event queue after updating the flight data at the FMS to the updated state. One or more other vehicle systems can asynchronously retrieve the event data from the event queue and independently update in response to the event data.

A status notification apparatus acquires face image data of a passenger of an aircraft, the face image data having been acquired at departure/arrival airports and of the aircraft, and acquires, from a storage device in which arrival destination information regarding the arrival destination of the aircraft, the face image data of the passenger, and identification information identifying the passenger are stored in association with each other in advance, the identification information and the arrival destination information corresponding to the acquired face image data. The status notification apparatus acquires a movement status of the passenger, and notifies a service provider at the arrival destination of the acquired movement status and the acquired identification information based on the acquired arrival destination information.