eVTOL Recharging Flight Planning with Safe Approach Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current flight plan management for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is inefficient due to reliance on traditional instrument approach procedures, which do not account for unique considerations such as environment and ambient conditions, leading to suboptimal recharging strategies.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize a computing device at the recharging infrastructure to receive aircraft metrics from an eVTOL's flight controller, generate a safe and optimized approach plan, and transmit it to the aircraft for execution, while also sending it to remote devices for air traffic management, incorporating factors like weather, aircraft state, and environmental conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional instrument approach procedures are used for eVTOL recharging, then the process is standardized and simple to implement, but it does not account for unique environmental conditions and aircraft metrics leading to suboptimal efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables the eVTOL aircraft to autonomously generate its own optimized approach flight plan by integrating flight controller data with recharging infrastructure information, eliminating the need for complex air traffic control mediation and improving recharging efficiency through self-optimized routing
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously receives real-time aircraft metrics from the flight controller and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust and optimize the approach flight plan, ensuring the most efficient recharging strategy is always applied based on current aircraft state and environmental conditions
2Loss of time
If traditional air traffic control communication is used, then the process is well-established and reliable, but it involves multiple information exchanges and is time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and processes critical flight plan information directly at the recharging infrastructure using local computing devices, eliminating the need for multiple back-and-forth communications with air traffic control and significantly reducing communication time while maintaining reliability through direct data processing
Solution Approach 2:
The flight plan management process is segmented into independent components: the flight controller provides aircraft metrics, the recharging infrastructure generates the optimized plan, and the aircraft executes it. This segmentation allows parallel processing and reduces sequential communication overhead, saving time while maintaining system reliability
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AI summary
A system for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The system includes a recharging infrastructure. The recharging infra structure includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an aircraft metric from a flight controller of an eVTOL aircraft, generate a safe approach plan for the eVTOL aircraft as a function of the aircraft metric, transmit the safe approach plan to the eVTOL aircraft for execution by the eVTOL aircraft, and transmit the safe approach plan to a remote device. A method for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an eVTOL aircraft is also provided.