IP Library Granted Patent US 11,814,158
Granted Patent B1
US 11,814,158 · App. 17/732,294 · Granted Nov 14, 2023

Systems and methods for determining areas of discrepancy in flight for an electric aircraft

Inventors: Alexander Hoekje List (South Burlington, VT); Vincent Moeykens (Williston, VT)
Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
B64C19/00
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Patent No.
US 11,814,158
App. No.
17/732,294
Granted
Nov 14, 2023
Kind
B1
Abstract

A system for determining areas of discrepancy in flight for an electric aircraft is presented. The system includes a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor is communicatively connected to a flight component and configured to detect a measured flight and generate a flight phase datum. The system further includes a computing device communicatively connected to the plurality of sensors, wherein the computing device is configured to determine, by a flight phase machine-learning model, a flight phase discrepancy datum. The computing device is configured to train the flight phase machine-learning using a flight phase training set, wherein the flight phase training set correlates a flight phase to a flight standard and output the flight phase discrepancy datum. The computing device is further configured to identify an anomalous performance phase as a function of the flight phase discrepancy datum and generate a discrepancy response.

Claims (42)

1. A system for determining areas of discrepancy in flight for an electric aircraft, the system comprising:

a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor is communicatively connected to a flight component of an electric aircraft and configured to:

detect a measured flight datum; and

generate a flight phase datum as a function of the measured flight datum; and

a computing device communicatively connected to the plurality of sensors, the computing device configured to:

determine, using a flight phase machine-learning model and the flight phase datum, a flight phase discrepancy datum;

identify an anomalous performance phase as a function of the flight phase discrepancy datum; and

generate an anomaly response as a function of an anomalous source wherein the anomalous source is identified as a function of a comparison of the flight phase discrepancy datum and a flight phase history datum retrieved from an aircraft datum database and the anomaly response comprises:

at least a maintenance report; and

at least a corrective action, wherein the at least a corrective action comprises:

an aerodynamic drag induction, the aerodynamic drag induction comprising recuperating aerodynamic energy; and

at least a strike force command.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sensors comprises:

a first sensor configured to detect a first measured flight datum of the flight component at a first time interval; and

a second sensor configured to detect a second measured flight datum of the flight component at a second time interval.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the computing device is further configured to determine the flight phase discrepancy datum as a function of the first measured flight datum and the second measured flight datum.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor is further configured to generate a flight component datum as a function of the measured flight datum.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the computing device is further configured to:

determine a flight component discrepancy datum as a function of the flight component datum;

identify an anomalous performance flight component as a function of the flight component discrepancy datum; and

generate the anomaly response as a function of the anomalous performance flight component.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is further configured to generate the anomaly response during flight.

7. A method for determining areas of discrepancy in flight for an electric aircraft, the method comprising:

detecting, by a sensor communicatively connected to a flight component of an electric aircraft, a measured flight datum;

generating a flight phase datum as a function of the measured flight datum;

determining, by a computing device communicatively connected to the sensor, a flight phase discrepancy datum;

identifying an anomalous performance phase as a function of the flight phase discrepancy datum; and

generating an anomaly response as a function of an anomalous source wherein the anomalous source is identified as a function of a comparison of the flight phase discrepancy datum and a flight phase history datum retrieved from an aircraft datum database and the anomaly response comprises:

at least a maintenance report; and

at least a corrective action, wherein the at least a corrective action comprises:

an aerodynamic drag induction, the aerodynamic drag induction comprising recuperating aerodynamic energy; and

at least a strike force command.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:

detecting, by a first sensor communicatively connected to the flight component, a first measured flight datum at a first time interval; and

detecting, by a second sensor communicatively connected to the flight component, a second measured flight datum at a second time interval.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises determining the discrepancy datum as a function of the first measured flight datum and the second measured flight datum.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises generating a flight component datum as a function of the measured flight datum.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:

determining, by the computing device, a flight component discrepancy datum as a function of the flight component datum;

identifying an anomalous performance flight component as a function of the flight component discrepancy datum; and

generating the anomaly response as a function of the anomalous performance flight component.

12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises generating the anomaly response during flight.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 22, 2024
From: LIST, ALEXANDER HOEKJE; MOEYKENS, VINCENT
To: BETA AIR LLC
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