Methods and apparatus to characterize pressure effects based on payload
AssigneeInsitu, Inc., a subsidiary of The Boeing Company
InventorsRolf Theodoor Rysdyk, Mark Kleczewski Ploeger
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to characterize pressure effects based on payload are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a sensor carried by an aircraft, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to determine at least one of a configuration or an orientation of a payload, determine a pressure based on output from the sensor, determine an airspeed error based on: (i) the at least one of the configuration or the orientation, and (ii) the pressure, and determine an airspeed of the aircraft based on the airspeed error.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a sensor carried by an aircraft;
- machine-readable instructions;
- and
- at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to:
- determine at least one of a configuration or an orientation of a payload,
- determine a pressure based on output from the sensor,
- determine an airspeed error based on:
- (i) the at least one of the configuration or the orientation, and (ii) the pressure, and
- determine an airspeed of the aircraft based on the airspeed error.
At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions to cause at least one processor circuit to at least:
- determine at least one of a configuration or an orientation of a payload carried by an aircraft;
- determine a pressure based on output from a sensor of the aircraft;
- determine an airspeed error based on:
- (i) the at least one of the configuration or the orientation, and (ii) the pressure;
- and
- determine an airspeed of the aircraft based on the airspeed error.
A method comprising:
- determining, by one or more of at least one processor circuit, at least one of a configuration or an orientation of a payload carried by an aircraft;
- determining, by one or more of the at least one processor circuit, a pressure based on output from a sensor of the aircraft;
- determining, by one or more of the at least one processor circuit, an airspeed error based on:
- (i) the at least one of the configuration or the orientation, and (ii) the pressure;
- determining, by one or more of the at least one processor circuit, an airspeed of the aircraft based on the airspeed error;
- and
- directing, by one or more of the at least one processor circuit, movement of the aircraft based on the determined airspeed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.