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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2021
Volocopter Gmbh, Bruchsal, DE;
Volocopter GmbH, Bruchsal, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating an aircraft having multiple drive units including: a) providing a first flight control unit (CTRL-), which activates the drive units according to a first control implementation when CTRL-is active; b) providing a second flight control unit (CTRL-), which activates the drive units according to a second control implementation when CTRL-is active; c) continuously monitoring a function of the currently active flight control unit (CTRL-); d) changing the active flight control unit from the currently active flight control unit (CTRL-) to the newly active flight control unit (CTRL-) in dependence on a result of the monitoring in step c); in which the change in step d) for the newly active flight control unit (CTRL-) includes: d1) initializing starting values of a movement equation of the aircraft implemented in CTRL-using currently known state values (x) of the aircraft; d2) initializing integrators of CTRL-using control commands for the drive units from CTRL-; d3) difference equalization between control commands (u) for the drive units from CTRL-and control commands (u) for the drive units from CTRL-