Patent ID: 11970281
Assignee: ANSEL MISFELDT
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 14:
15. A rotorcraft system, comprising:
a plurality of motors for producing thrust;
a plurality of sensors for measuring one or more states of each of the plurality of motors;
a flight computer comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instruction that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
receive, at the flight computer, feedback from the plurality of sensors associated with the plurality of motors;
determine, at the flight computer, that a first motor in the plurality of motors is malfunctioning;
select, at the flight computer based on the feedback, one or more second motors in the plurality of motors for redistributing power;
reduce a power supplied to the first motor;
increase a power supplied to the one or more second motors selected for redistributing power and dynamically adjusting a power distribution to the one or more second motors taking into account a net torque on the rotorcraft system due to said reducing the power supplied to the first motor; and
perform diagnostics on the first motor while the first motor is still being supplied with the reduced power for determining whether the first motor continues to malfunction or no longer malfunctions after said reducing the power supplied to the first motor.