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

Claim 17:
18. A system (4) for monitoring a condition of a VTOL-aircraft (1) with a plurality of spatially distributed actuators (2i, 2o), the system comprising:
at least one controller with a primary control (4.1) that is configured to be used for controlling a flight state of the VTOL-aircraft (1) and at least one secondary control (4.2) that is configured to be used for controlling the actuators (2i, 2o) of the VTOL-aircraft (1);
during operation of the VTOL-aircraft (1), the primary control (4.1) is configured to generate a primary data set (32), which is subject to a first uncertainty, and the secondary control (4.2) is configured to generate a secondary data set (37), which is subject to a second uncertainty;
an estimation algorithm (28) that is executed on the at least one controller that receives both the primary data set (32) and the secondary data set (37);
the estimation algorithm (28) is configured to process the primary data set (32) and the secondary data set (37) and the estimation algorithm (28) is configured to generate an estimation result (40), said estimation result (40) is representative of a condition of the VTOL-aircraft (1), and said estimation result (40) is subject to a third uncertainty, said third uncertainty is equal to or lower than at least one of the first uncertainty or the second uncertainty.