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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
May. 29, 2017
Volocopter Gmbh, Bruchsal, DE;
Volocopter GmbH, Bruchsal, DE;
Abstract
A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft () for transporting persons or loads, including a plurality of preferably equivalent and redundant electric motors () and propellers (), substantially arranged in one surface, wherein each propeller is assigned an individual electric motor to drive the propeller, the aircraft being characterized in that at least one attitude sensor is provided for attitude control of the aircraft () in an active signal connection to at least one signal processing unit which is designed or set up to automatically perform the attitude control based on measurement data from the attitude sensor by regulating the speed of at least some of the electric motors (), preferably with signal actions of the speed controller assigned to each electric motor such that the aircraft () is positioned in space with the surface defined by the propeller () substantially horizontal at all times, without control input by a pilot or a remote control.