Efficient VTOL Resource Management in an Aviation Transport Network
AssigneeJoby Elevate, Inc.
InventorsNikhil Goel, Jon Petersen, John Badalamenti, Mark Moore
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Abstract
A transport network management system identifies a service objective for a plurality of VTOL aircraft and retrieves VTOL data including locations of the plurality of VTOL aircraft. An estimate of demand for transport services to be provided at least in part by one of the VTOL aircraft is generated and routing data for the plurality of VTOL aircraft is determined based on the estimated demand and the service objective. Routing instructions based on the routing data are sent to at least a subset of the VTOL aircraft.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- accessing data indicative of a demand for transport requests;
- accessing data indicative of locations of a plurality of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft;
- accessing data indicative of battery levels of each of the plurality of VTOL aircraft;
- determining, based on the demand of transport requests, the locations of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, and the battery levels of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, a route for each of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, each route specifying a destination for the VTOL aircraft and one or more way points while traveling to the destination;
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- sending routing instructions to at least one of the VTOL aircraft of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, the routing instructions based on the determined route for the at least one VTOL aircraft.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising executable computer program code, the computer program code when executed causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- accessing data indicative of a demand for transport requests;
- accessing data indicative of locations of a plurality of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft;
- accessing data indicative of battery levels of each of the plurality of VTOL aircraft;
- determining, based on the demand of transport requests, the locations of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, and the battery levels of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, a route for each of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, each route specifying a destination for the VTOL aircraft and one or more way points while traveling to the destination;
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- sending routing instructions to at least one of the VTOL aircraft of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, the routing instructions based on the determined route for the at least one VTOL aircraft.
A computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising executable computer program code, the computer program code when executed causing the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- accessing data indicative of a demand for transport requests;
- accessing data indicative of locations of a plurality of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft;
- accessing data indicative of battery levels of each of the plurality of VTOL aircraft;
- determining, based on the demand of transport requests, the locations of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, and the battery levels of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, a route for each of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, each route specifying a destination for the VTOL aircraft and one or more way points while traveling to the destination;
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- sending routing instructions to at least one of the VTOL aircraft of the plurality of VTOL aircraft, the routing instructions based on the determined route for the at least one VTOL aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.