Integrating the evolving modern cockpit
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This paper applies to Free Flight some lessons learned from ten years of investigation into computing in the modern cockpit. Early efforts concluded that Artificial Intelligence was better suited to Flight Management and Pilot Decision Support than to aircraft control. Later efforts produced an Al-based cockpit software decision system for inferring current flight operation without querying the pilot. That decision system was used to drive adaptive displays and a rule-based Pilot Advisor. This prior work implemented a state of the art fixed-base engineering flight simulator, whose software was favorably evaluated by a team of pilots. Currently, an innovative Flight Management System is being implemented, based on cooperating software agents. The technology focus is not just on hardware but on the software that can integrate new Free Flight functionality, in terms of increasing pilot situational awareness, while not increasing his workload. Software methods integrate data from multiple sources, dealing with weather, traffic, terrain, and route. Such data fusion results in an integrated, pilot-centered, smart guidance and display system. 2001 by John H. Painter.
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AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit
