UAM Balance Control via Cloud Occupant Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional urban air mobility systems fail to maintain balance during flight due to neglecting occupant weight distribution, leading to unsafe flight conditions as they do not adjust seating or motor outputs based on individual occupant weights.
Innovation Solution
A device and method that collect occupant information from a cloud server to allocate seats and adjust motor outputs, ensuring balance by redistributing seat positions and modifying motor power based on weight ratios between occupants on different sides of the aircraft.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If seat allocation and motor output are not adjusted based on occupant weight, then the device complexity is reduced, but the balance stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary weight assessment of occupants before flight and pre-calculates the required seat allocations and motor output adjustments. This allows the balance control parameters to be determined in advance, enabling the aircraft to achieve proper weight distribution before takeoff without requiring complex real-time adjustment mechanisms during flight.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts seat positions and motor outputs based on the actual weight distribution of occupants. Seats are movable along tracks to reposition occupants, and motor outputs are varied to compensate for weight imbalances. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to maintain balance stability without requiring an overly complex fixed-configuration control system.
2Stability of the object's composition
If seat positions are adjusted to balance weight distribution, then the balance stability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The seat adjustment system is divided into independent modular units, each capable of movement along predefined tracks. This segmentation allows individual seats to be adjusted without affecting the entire seating system, reducing the overall complexity of the adjustment mechanism while still achieving the required balance stability through coordinated movement of multiple independent seat units.
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AI summary
A device for controlling a balance of an urban air mobility, may include a receiver configured to receive occupant information related to the urban air mobility from a cloud server; and a controller configured to control the balance of the urban air mobility according to the received occupant information.