ARINC Incorporated

Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media provide improved taxi-time estimates. A method includes receiving, by a graph neural network (GNN), features indicating current traffic and current weather conditions at an airport and an estimated taxi-time, the GNN operating on a graph that indicates spatial relationships between elements of the airport, generating, by the GNN, graph data including weights that indicate an effect of the features on the taxi-time and a second estimated taxi-time, generating, by a transformer and based on the graph data and the second estimated taxi-time, taxi-time deviations, the taxi-time deviations indicating an amount of time to adjust the estimated taxi-time, and applying, by a taxi-time correction operator, the taxi-time deviations to the estimated taxi-time, resulting in an updated taxi-time.

Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media provide improved flight path selections. A system includes a graph representation operator configured to generate a graph of potential flight paths and actual obstacles in the potential flight paths, the potential flight paths extending from a takeoff location to a destination location, a predictive analysis model configured to receive the graph and environmental data and generate predictions of future environmental conditions based on the graph and the environmental data, a cost function and heuristic estimate operator configured to determine costs associated with flight paths of the potential flight paths based on the future environmental conditions, and a predictive pathfinding model configured to identify a flight path of the potential paths based on the costs, aircraft specific performance data, air traffic control constraints, current environmental conditions, and the future environmental conditions.

A remote attestation system 200 is provided comprising a relying party 202 , a component 213 ; and a plurality of verifiers 204 , 206 , 208 arranged to verify a target by receiving evidence from an attester of the target and producing a verification result for the target based on said evidence. The relying party is arranged to cause each of the verifiers to verify the component to produce a plurality of verification results for the component; cause one or more of the verifiers to verify one or more other verifiers so as to produce one or more verification results for each verifier; and determine an attestation result for the component based on the verification results for the component and the verifiers.

Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media provide improved aviation operations management communications. A method includes receiving, from a first two-way wireless communications device and at a communications manager, a first communication, determining, by the communications manager, that the first communication includes (i) a question or (ii) a standard communication that has a standard response in accord with two-way radio transceiver etiquette, responsive to determining that the first communication includes the question or (i) a question or (ii) a standard communication that has a standard response in accord with two-way radio transceiver etiquette, generating, by the communications manager, a response to the first communication, and transmitting the response to the first two-way wireless communications device.

Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for aiding a pre-flight inspection of an aircraft. This includes a system with processor, a memory, a camera, a user interface and a communications device. The user interface can include a user input system and a user output system. The user interface can be configured for presenting a graphical checklist for the pre-flight inspection of the aircraft. The memory includes, instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine a result of the pre-flight inspection for display on the graphical checklist, wherein the result is based upon at least a first data obtained from imaging a first onboard system of aircraft using the camera.

Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for generating a Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) digital message. This can include: a digital interface system configured to receive input from one of a pilot or an air traffic controller. The digital interface system can optionally include: a digital message generator configured to receive the input and decode an intent of the input within an aviation context. The digital message generator can be configured to determine a sample response based upon the intent. This can further include: a compliance system configured to review the sample response for a potential error. If cleared by the review of the compliance system, the digital interface system issues the sample response as the CPDLC digital message.

An aerospace system 100 is provided, comprising a plurality of peripheral devices 102 and a central device 104 operable to communicate with the plurality of peripheral devices. The central device is arranged to receive information describing one or more machine learning models from an external source 106 and distribute said one or more machine learning models to the plurality of peripheral devices. Each peripheral device is arranged to obtain input data, apply a machine learning model of the one or more machine learning models to the input data to produce output data, and send said output data to the central device.

A code-division multiple-access (CDMA) based Intra-Aircraft Wireless Sensor Network (IAWSN) configured for structural health monitoring comprises a network of sensor nodes configured as source nodes to transmit sensor data in accordance with a CDMA technique and a wireless data concentrator (WDC) to receive the sensor data simultaneously from at least some of the sensor nodes. Each of the sensor nodes is assigned a synchronous CDMA code for spreading the sensor data and uniquely identifying transmissions from each sensor node. The WDC may use the synchronous CDMA codes to despread the simultaneously received sensor data and identify the particular sensor node from which the sensor data is received. The synchronous CDMA codes serve as a unique identifier of the sensor nodes, as well as provide for improved immunity from interference.

A ground station is used by an air traffic controller to provide support to an aircraft. In particular, the ground station may mirror or regenerate a weather radar overlay of a flight display of the aircraft. The air traffic controller and the flight crew may then both see the same real-time weather information with minimum delay and achieve a similar level of situation awareness. The weather radar overlay may be displayed on a display of the ground station. The ground station may receive weather data and ADS-B data or other forms of location data and intended flight path from the aircraft via an air-to-ground communication channel. The weather data may be used to regenerate the weather radar overlay. The ground station may also use the ADS-B data to generate a coverage map of the aircraft in a selected airspace.

A system and method for transporting passengers via uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) receives passenger requests for transport between origin and destination points. Based on the request a transport plan is generated for each passenger, identifying the passenger, assigning a UAS and including a flight plan (which includes flight instructions and a communications plan for the UAS control system). Based on the transport plan one or more encoded flight plan datasets are generated. Each encoded dataset is downloadable to and displayable by the passenger's portable computing device, and scannable and decodable by reader devices at the origin and destination ports and aboard the UAS. Scanning an encoded dataset both grants the passenger access to the origin port and UAS and confirms the passenger's presence. Further, each assigned UAS downloads from the decoded flight plan data the necessary configuration data to fulfill its portion/s of the flight plan.