Patent ID: 11866195
Assignee: VOLOCOPTER GMBH
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method (27) for monitoring a condition of a VTOL-aircraft (1) with a plurality of spatially distributed actuators (2i, 2o), the method comprising:
using a primary control (4.1) for controlling a flight state of the VTOL-aircraft (1) and using at least one secondary control (4.2) for controlling the actuators (2i, 2o) of the VTOL-aircraft (1);
during operation of the VTOL-aircraft (1), generating a primary data set (32) with the primary control (4.1), which is subject to a first uncertainty, and entering said primary data set (32) into an estimation algorithm (28), and generating a secondary data set (37) with the secondary control (4.2), which is subject to a second uncertainty, and entering said secondary data set (37) into the estimation algorithm (28);
the estimation algorithm (28) processing the primary data set (32) and the secondary data set (37) and the estimation algorithm (28) generating an estimation result (40), said estimation result (40) being representative of a condition of the VTOL-aircraft (1), and subjecting said estimation result (40) to a third uncertainty, said third uncertainty is equal to or lower than at least one of the first uncertainty and/or the second uncertainty.