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US 12,384,270 B2Granted
Systems and methods for determining remaining useful energy in an 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.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a display;
- and
- a computing device communicably coupled to the display, the computing device configured to:
- measure an internal state data of a battery on an aircraft as a function of at least a sensor;
- determine a useful energy remaining data of the battery by processing based on the internal state data;
- determine a remaining flight range and at least one cruising speed based on a flight path of the aircraft, the useful energy remaining data, and a power consumption rate for the aircraft;
- provide the remaining flight range and the at least one cruising speed as a function of the flight path to the display;
- and
- provide a warning message to the display when a current cruising speed of the aircraft exceeds the at least one cruising speed based on a threshold value.
6 more elements
A method comprising:
- measuring an internal state data of a battery on an aircraft as a function of at least a sensor;
- determining a useful energy remaining data of the battery by processing the internal state data through a machine learning model trained with training data that includes correlations of internal state data and useful energy remaining data of a type of aircraft of the aircraft;
- determining a remaining flight range and at least one cruising speed based on a flight path of the aircraft, the useful energy remaining data, and a power consumption rate for the aircraft;
- and
- providing the remaining flight range and the at least one cruising speed as a function of the flight path to a display.
2 more elements
A system comprising:
- a display;
- and
- a computing device communicably coupled to the display, the computing device configured to:
- measure an internal state data of a battery on an aircraft as a function of at least a sensor;
- determine a useful energy remaining data of the battery by processing based on the internal state data;
- determine a remaining flight range and at least one cruising speed by processing a flight path of the aircraft, the useful energy remaining data, and a power consumption rate for the aircraft through a machine learning model trained with training data that includes correlations between remaining flight range data and flight path data;
- and
- provide the remaining flight range and the at least one cruising speed as a function of the flight path to the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.