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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2019
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Reza Ghaemi, Watervliet, NY (US);
Eric Richard Westervelt, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Mark Lawrence Darnell, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
David Lax, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/10 (2006.01); G06F 7/64 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/10 (2013.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G06F 7/64 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, computer-readable medium, and a method to operate a vehicle in a manner that minimizes a cost to travel from an origin to a destination that includes finding the input to a flight control system that minimizes direct operating cost. The approach described herein employs an energy state approximation (ESA).