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Fault-tolerant aircraft flight control using a subset of aerodynamic control surfaces

US10604236B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Regents of the University of Minnesota · US

Inventors

Raghu Venkataraman · Minneapolis, US
Peter Seiler · Tomerdingen, DE
Brian Taylor · Saskatoon, CA

Key dates

Filing date	May 31, 2017
Grant date	Mar 31, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 10, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T50/40
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. In one example, the method includes: detecting, by one or more processors of a controller within a UAV, whether flight control surfaces of the UAV are operating nominally; switching, by the one or more processors of the controller, in response to detecting that one or more of the flight control surfaces of the UAV are not operating nominally, to implementing a backup control mode configured to operate the UAV in flight with non-nominal operability of one or more of the control surfaces of the UAV; and operating, by the one or more processors of the controller, the UAV in the backup control mode.

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