Systems and methods for determining remaining useful energy in an electric aircraft
AssigneeBeta Air, LLC
InventorsSteven J. Foland, Herman Wiegman
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Abstract
A system for determining remaining useful energy in an electric aircraft, the system including a computing device where the computing device is configured to measure a internal state datum of a battery as a function of at least a sensor, receive the internal state datum from the at least a sensor, generate a useful energy remaining datum as a function of the internal state datum and a battery model, and display the useful energy remaining datum to a user.
Claims18
A system for determining remaining useful energy in an electric aircraft, the system comprising a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to:
- measure an internal state datum of a battery as a function of at least a sensor, wherein the battery is on an electric aircraft;
- receive the internal state datum from the at least a sensor;
- train a machine-learning model using training data stored in a database on the electric aircraft, wherein the training data includes battery internal state datum correlated to battery remaining useful energy data, and wherein the training data stored on the electric aircraft is updated at preset intervals;
- generate a useful energy remaining datum as a function of the internal state datum, a battery model and the trained machine-learning model;
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- display the useful energy remaining datum to a user.
A method for determining remaining useful energy in an electric aircraft, the method comprising:
- measuring, by a computing device, an internal state datum of a battery as a function of at least a sensor, wherein the battery is on an electric aircraft;
- receiving, by the computing device, the internal state datum from the at least a sensor;
- training, by the computing device, a machine-learning model using training data stored in a database on the electric aircraft, wherein the training data includes battery internal state datum correlated to battery remaining useful energy data, and wherein the training data stored on the electric aircraft is updated at preset intervals;
- generating, by the computing device, a useful energy remaining datum as a as a function of the internal state datum, a battery model and the trained machine-learning model;
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- displaying, by the computing device, the useful energy remaining datum to a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.