Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic center of gravity determination
- Patent Title (中): 动态重心测定
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Application No.: US14598986Application Date: 2015-01-16
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Publication No.: US09464958B2Publication Date: 2016-10-11
- Inventor: ShyhPyng Jack Shue
- Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G01C23/00
- IPC: G01C23/00 ; B64C27/22 ; G01M1/12 ; B64C29/00 ; B64C19/00 ; B64C27/28

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for determining center of gravity of a tiltrotor aircraft includes storing a multi-dimensional matrix mapping multiple tiltrotor aircraft parameters to a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) centers of gravity of the tiltrotor aircraft, where each 3D center of gravity includes a respective longitudinal center of gravity, lateral center of gravity, and vertical center of gravity. The method includes receiving input signals from corresponding on-board sensors, where the input signals represent characteristics of the tiltrotor aircraft, determining tiltrotor aircraft parameters from the input signals, identifying, from the multi-dimensional matrix mapping, a longitudinal center of gravity, a lateral center of gravity, and a vertical center of gravity that corresponds to the determined tiltrotor aircraft parameters, and providing the identified longitudinal center of gravity, the identified lateral center of gravity, and the identified vertical center of gravity in response to receiving the input signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160209290A1 DYNAMIC CENTER OF GRAVITY DETERMINATION Public/Granted day:2016-07-21
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