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公开(公告)号:US20240418131A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-19
申请号:US18335340
申请日:2023-06-15
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Stefan Joseph Cafaro , Kalpesh Singal , Eric Richard Westervelt
Abstract: A propulsion system includes at least two propulsors. The at least two propulsors each comprising a fan having a plurality of fan blades. A controller includes memory and one or more processors. The memory stores instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the system to perform the following: determine a pairwise phase difference between one propulsor of the at least two propulsors and another propulsor of the at least two propulsors; generate a reference phase angle; determine a target phase shift for each propulsor of the at least two propulsors; and adjust a speed of each propulsor of the at least two propulsors based on the target phase shift until the pairwise phase difference is equal to the reference phase angle.
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公开(公告)号:US11668241B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-06
申请号:US17350932
申请日:2021-06-17
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon W. Miller , Robert Jon McQuiston , Stefan Joseph Cafaro , Eric Richard Westervelt , Michael A. Benjamin , Joel M. Haynes , Hejie Li
CPC classification number: F02C7/22 , F02C7/224 , F02C9/28 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/35 , F05D2260/20
Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel supply system can include a fuel delivery system, a thermal management system, a fuel manifold, and one or more sensors that identify one or more fuel parameters. A fuel control system adjusts parameters of the fuel based on data received from the sensors.
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公开(公告)号:US20220403784A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-22
申请号:US17351023
申请日:2021-06-17
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon W. Miller , Robert Jon McQuiston , Stefan Joseph Cafaro , Eric Richard Westervelt , Michael A. Benjamin , Joel M. Haynes , Hejie Li
Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel supply system can include a fuel delivery system, a thermal management system, a fuel manifold, and one or more sensors that identify one or more fuel parameters. A fuel control system adjusts parameters of the fuel based on data received from the sensors.
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公开(公告)号:US20190187727A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US15848693
申请日:2017-12-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: James Ryan Reepmeyer , Eric Richard Westervelt
CPC classification number: G05D1/104 , F41H13/0043 , G07C5/0808 , G07C5/0816 , G08G5/003
Abstract: A fleet mission control system for a network of aerial vehicles including power thermal management systems is provided. According to examples of the disclosed technology a control system receives one or more mission objectives for a network of aircraft including two or more aerial vehicles. Each aerial vehicle includes a power-thermal management system. The control system receives system state information for the network of aircraft. The system state information includes PTMS state data. The control system determines a set of aircraft commands for the network of aircraft based on the one or more mission objectives and the PTMS state data, and generates an output signal based on the set of aircraft commands.
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公开(公告)号:US10260883B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-16
申请号:US15196892
申请日:2016-06-29
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Reza Ghaemi , Eric Richard Westervelt , Mark Lawrence Darnell
Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and a method to operate a vehicle in a manner that minimizes a cost to travel from an origin to a destination that includes finding the input to a flight control system that minimizes direct operating cost. The approach described herein employs an energy state approximation (ESA).
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公开(公告)号:US09564056B1
公开(公告)日:2017-02-07
申请号:US14844892
申请日:2015-09-03
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Reza Ghaemi , Eric Richard Westervelt , Mark Darnell
CPC classification number: G08G5/0095 , G05D1/0005 , G06F17/13 , G06F17/5009 , G06F17/5095 , G08G5/0034
Abstract: A method, medium, and system to receive a mathematical model representation of performance characteristics for an aircraft and an engine combination; perform a projection based model order reduction on the mathematical model representation; eliminate, based on the projected model, fast dynamics components of the mathematical model representation; determine a reduced order model, as a differential algebraic equation, wherein algebraic equations replace the fast dynamics; set a flight path angle and a throttle level angle as a control to minimize fuel consumption for the modeled aircraft and engine combination; discretize equations of motion for the modeled aircraft and engine combination and formulate optimization equations as a nonlinear programming problem; and determine an optimal open loop control that minimizes fuel consumption for the modeled aircraft and engine combination to climb to a prescribed cruise altitude and airspeed.
Abstract translation: 一种用于接收航空器和发动机组合的性能特征的数学模型表示的方法,介质和系统; 对数学模型表示执行基于投影的模型顺序减少; 消除,基于预测模型,数学模型表示的快速动力学组件; 确定一个降序模型,作为微分代数方程,其中代数方程代替快速动力学; 设置飞行路径角度和节气门水平角作为控制,以最小化建模的飞机和发动机组合的燃料消耗; 对模型飞机和发动机组合的运动方程进行离散化,并将优化方程式设计为非线性规划问题; 并且确定最佳开环控制,其使得建模的飞行器和发动机组合的燃料消耗最小化以爬升到规定的巡航高度和空速。
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公开(公告)号:US12116935B2
公开(公告)日:2024-10-15
申请号:US18310386
申请日:2023-05-01
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon W. Miller , Robert Jon McQuiston , Stefan Joseph Cafaro , Eric Richard Westervelt , Michael A. Benjamin , Joel M. Haynes , Hejie Li
CPC classification number: F02C7/22 , F02C7/224 , F02C9/28 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/35 , F05D2260/20
Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel supply system can include a fuel delivery system, a thermal management system, a fuel manifold, and one or more sensors that identify one or more fuel parameters. A fuel control system adjusts parameters of the fuel based on data received from the sensors.
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公开(公告)号:US20240159608A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-16
申请号:US17988170
申请日:2022-11-16
Applicant: General Electric Company , GE Avio S.r.l.
Inventor: Bugra Han Ertas , Leonardo Coviello , Juraj Hrubec , Joseph Alfred Iannotti , Eric Richard Westervelt , Keith F. Beatty , Bradley Alan Bauer
CPC classification number: G01L5/12 , F01D15/12 , F01D19/00 , F05D2270/335
Abstract: A power transmission gearbox system for a turbomachine is provided. the power transmission gearbox system includes a drivetrain having one or more rotating components. The system further includes at least one static component interfacing with the one or more rotating components. The system further includes a sensor disposed on the at least one static component and configured to provide data indicative of strain in the static component. The system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. the controller includes a processor and a memory. the processor is configured to perform a plurality of operations. The plurality of operations includes monitoring the data indicative of strain in the static component from the sensor. The operations further include determining, at least partially based on the data indicative of the strain in the static component, a torque in the one or more rotating components of the drivetrain.
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公开(公告)号:US20240051673A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-15
申请号:US17887872
申请日:2022-08-15
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kishore Ramakrishnan , Trevor Howard Wood , Harry Kirk Mathews, JR. , Eric Richard Westervelt , Honggang Wang , Timothy Richard DePuy
CPC classification number: B64D31/06 , B64D27/10 , B64D27/24 , B64D2027/026
Abstract: An aircraft engine includes a low pressure spool, a high pressure spool, and an alternative power source. The alternative power source is configured to add power to the high pressure spool. A controller is configured to determine a noise sensitive condition; and control, in response to determining the noise sensitive condition, the alternative power source to add power to the high pressure spool.
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公开(公告)号:US20230279782A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-07
申请号:US17686537
申请日:2022-03-04
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Harry Kirk Mathews, JR. , Eric Richard Westervelt
CPC classification number: F01D11/24 , F01D21/003 , F05D2260/232 , F05D2260/821 , F05D2270/305 , F05D2270/44 , F05D2270/71
Abstract: Clearance control schemes for controlling a clearance defined between a first component and a second component of a gas turbine engine are provided. In one aspect, an engine controller of the gas turbine engine implements a clearance control scheme, which includes receiving data indicating a clearance between the first component and the second component, the clearance being at least one of a measured clearance captured by a sensor and a predicted clearance specific to the gas turbine engine at that point in time; comparing the clearance to an allowable clearance; determining a clearance setpoint for a clearance adjustment system based on a clearance difference determined by comparing the clearance to the allowable clearance; and causing the clearance adjustment system to adjust the clearance to the allowable clearance based on the clearance setpoint.
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