[특허]Aircraft control method

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국가/구분	United States(US) Patent 등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)	H04Q-007/20
미국특허분류(USC)	455/431; 455/430; 455/427; 455/012.1
출원번호	US-0789450 (2001-02-20)
§371/§102 date	20010503 (20010503)
발명자 / 주소	Cox, Earl C. Swanson, Kyle D.
출원인 / 주소	Aerovironment, Inc.
인용정보	피인용 횟수 : 20 인용 특허 : 17

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This disclosure provides a solar rechargeable aircraft that is inexpensive to produce, is steerable, and can remain airborne almost indefinitely. The preferred aircraft is a span-loaded flying wing, having no fuselage or rudder. Traveling at relatively slow speeds, and having a two-hundred foot wingspan that mounts photovoltaic cells on most all of the wing's top surface, the aircraft uses only differential thrust of its eight propellers to turn. Each of five segments of the wing has one or more motors and photovoltaic arrays, and produces its own lift independent of the other segments, to avoid loading them. Five two-sided photovoltaic arrays, in all, are mounted on the wing, and receive photovoltaic energy both incident on top of the wing, and which is incident also from below, through a bottom, transparent surface. The aircraft includes hinges and actuators capable of providing an adjustable dihedral for the wing. The actuators can be motors or control surfaces. Alternately, the actuators can be movable masses within the wing, which may be capable of deforming the wing to alter the aerodynamics of the wing, and thereby actuate the hinges. Because of wing dihedral, the aircraft includes motors both above and below the center of drag, and the aircraft uses differential thrust to control aircraft pitch. The aircraft has a wide variety of applications, which include serving as a long term high altitude platform that serves to link a ground station using radio wave signals and a satellite using optical signals.

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1. A method for a mission controller at a ground station to control an aircraft, comprising:identifying a plurality of communication subsystems between the ground station and the aircraft, wherein the plurality of communication subsystems are at least partially redundant; establishing communication between the ground station and the aircraft using a first communication subsystem of the plurality of communication subsystems; operating the first communications subsystem as a communication link for the mission controller to control the aircraft; monitoring the first communication subsystem to determine information on at least one of: the availability of the first communication subsystem and the reliability of the first communication subsystem; monitoring a second communication subsystem of the plurality of communication subsystems to determine information on at least one of: the availability of the second communication subsystem and the reliability of the second communication subsystem; comparing the information determined in the steps of monitoring the first and second communication subsystems; and operating the second communications subsystem as a communication link for the mission controller to control the aircraft if, in the step of comparing, the first communication subsystem is found to be at least one of: unavailable and characterized by less preferable reliability than the second communication subsystem. 2. The method of claim 1, and further comprising establishing and maintaining communication between the ground station and the aircraft using the second communication subsystem while, in the step of comparing, the first communication subsystem is found to be both available and characterized by preferable reliability as compared to the second communication subsystem.3. The method of claim 1, and further comprising:monitoring a third communication subsystem of the plurality of communication subsystems to determine information on at least one of: the availability of the third communication subsystem and the reliability of the third communication subsystem; and operating the third communications subsystem as a communication link for the mission controller to control the aircraft if, in the step of comparing, the first and second communication subsystems are both found to be at least one of: unavailable and characterized by less preferable reliability than the third communication subsystem. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein:at least one of the plurality of communications systems is constituted from a plurality of separate system components, at least one of the plurality of separate system components having information available on at least one of: the availability of the system component and the reliability of the system component; and at least one of the plurality of separate system components that has information available on at least one of: the availability of the system component and the reliability of the system component, is also part of another of the plurality of communications systems. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein:at least two of the plurality of separate system components have information available on at least one of: the availability of that system component and the reliability of that system component; and at least two of the plurality of separate system components that have information available on at least one of: the availability of that system component and the reliability of that system component, are also part of another of the plurality of communications systems. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step of operating the second communications subsystem, the cost of using at least one of the first and second communication subsystems is a factor in determining which communication subsystem is characterized by less preferable reliability.7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second communication subsystems are at least substantially redundant.8. The method of claim 7, and further comprising establishing and maintaining communication between the ground station and the aircraft using the second communication subsystem while, in the step of comparing, the first communication subsystem is found to be both available and characterized by preferable reliability as compared to the second communication subsystem.9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second communication subsystems are fully redundant.10. The method of claim 9, and further comprising establishing and maintaining communication between the ground station and the aircraft using the second communication subsystem while, in the step of comparing, the first communication subsystem is found to be both available and characterized by preferable reliability as compared to the second communication subsystem.

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