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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2020
Volocopter Gmbh, Bruchsal, DE;
Burak Yuksel, Heidelberg, DE;
Tobias Vermeulen, Munich, DE;
Volocopter GmbH, Bruchsal, DE;
Abstract
A method for monitoring a condition of a VTOL-aircraft (), preferably an electrically propelled, more particularly an autonomous, more particularly a multi-rotor aircraft, with a plurality of spatially distributed actuators (), preferably propulsion units, wherein a primary control () is used for controlling a flight state of the VTOL-aircraft () and at least one secondary control () is used for controlling the actuators () of the VTOL-aircraft (), preferably the propulsion units (); during operation. The primary control () generates a primary data set, which is subject to a first uncertainty, and is entered into an estimation algorithm, and the secondary control generates a secondary data set, which is subject to a second uncertainty, and is also entered into the estimation algorithm. The estimation algorithm processes the primary and secondary data sets and generates an estimation result that is representative of a condition of the VTOL-aircraft (), preferably a health status of at least one actuator (), which estimation result is subject to a third uncertainty that is equal to or lower than the first uncertainty and/or the second uncertainty.