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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2015
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Karim Khial, Seymour, CT (US);
James J. Howlett, North Haven, CT (US);
Vineet Sahasrabudhe, Cheshire, CT (US);
Naji S. Yakzan, Orange, CA (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method for sensing a takeoff of an aircraft includes receiving a rate of change in vertical motion of the aircraft, determining whether the rate of change in vertical motion of the aircraft exceeds a first threshold, integrating the rate of change in vertical motion of the aircraft and outputting a virtual altitude signal, responsive to receiving the indication that a portion of the aircraft is contacting a surface, delaying the virtual altitude signal through a discrete low pass filter and outputting a delayed virtual altitude signal, subtracting the delayed virtual altitude signal from the virtual altitude signal to output an altitude perturbation signal, determining whether the altitude perturbation signal exceeds a second threshold value, and outputting an indication that the portion of the aircraft is not contacting the surface responsive to the rate of change in the vertical motion of the aircraft and the altitude perturbation signal.