US 10,593,217 B2 · Vertiport management platform

Abstract

Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable a vertiport management platform for various aerial on demand mobility (ODM) stakeholders, including vertiport owners/operators, mobility service providers, aircraft fleet operators (e.g., electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) fleet operators, etc.), etc., to coordinate activities related to vertiports. Various embodiments enable vertiport capacity and ground operation coordination among aerial ODM stakeholders. Vertiport management platforms according to the various embodiments may support all aspects of aerial ODM services. Vertiport management platforms according to the various embodiments may enable flight operations at and between vertiports regardless as to the mobility service provider and/or customer facing network under which a flight is provided to a customer.

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Dependent claims

A method for aerial on-demand mobility (ODM) scheduling of electric propelled aircraft, comprising:

determining, in a processor of a vertiport management platform computing device, vertiport capacity for one or more vertiports;
determining, in the processor of the vertiport management platform computing device, one or more requested flights;
determining, in the processor of the vertiport management platform computing device, one or more available electric propelled aircraft;
receiving, in the processor of the vertiport management platform computing device, sensor data from sensors at the one or more vertiports, wherein the sensor data comprises real-time local airspace pictures at the one or more vertiports;
assigning, in the processor of the vertiport management platform computing device, the one or more requested flights to one or more vertiport spots of the one or more vertiports and selected ones of the one or more available electric propelled aircraft, wherein the assigning is based at least in part on the real-time local airspace pictures at the one or more vertiports;
and
sending, by the processor of the vertiport management platform computing device, the assignments to each respective one of the one or more vertiports and one or more available electric propelled aircraft.

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A vertiport management platform computing device, comprising:

a processor configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
determining vertiport capacity for one or more vertiports;
determining one or more requested flights;
determining one or more available electric propelled aircraft;
receiving sensor data from sensors at the one or more vertiports, wherein the sensor data comprises real-time local airspace pictures at the one or more vertiports;
assigning the one or more requested flights to one or more vertiport spots of the one or more vertiports and selected ones of the one or more available electric propelled aircraft;
and
sending the assignments to each respective one of the one or more vertiports and one or more available electric propelled aircraft,
wherein the processor is configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations such that the assigning is based at least in part on the real-time local airspace pictures at one or more vertiports.

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