公开(公告)号：US20230150681A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-18

申请号：US17526383

申请日：2021-11-15

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Kishore Ramakrishnan ,  Trevor Howard Wood ,  Stefan Joseph Cafaro ,  Robert Jon McQuiston ,  David Marion Ostdiek ,  Timothy Richard DePuy ,  Trevor Goerig ,  Eric Richard Westervelt

IPC: B64D31/06 ,  B64D27/12

CPC classification number: B64D31/06 ,  B64D27/12 ,  B64C2220/00

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an unducted turbofan engine to limit noise. The unducted turbofan engine may include an unducted fan drivingly coupled with a low-pressure turbine and a plurality of unducted outlet guide vanes. The unducted fan may include a plurality of fan blades and a pitch angle of the fan blades may be variable. A pitch angle of the unducted outlet guide vanes may be variable. A controller is configured to control the engine to limit noise based on a noise sensitive condition.

公开(公告)号：US10832581B2

公开(公告)日：2020-11-10

申请号：US15476351

申请日：2017-03-31

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Eric Richard Westervelt ,  Mark Lawrence Darnell ,  Reza Ghaemi ,  David Lax

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  G05D1/00

Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a specific aircraft for a prescribed flight; obtaining current sample measurements of at least one state or output of the specific aircraft; performing based on the obtained flight data, the current measurements or outputs, and a mathematical model accurately representing an actual operational performance of the specific aircraft and providing a predictive indication of a future performance of the specific aircraft, a control optimization to determine a cost-optimal control input for the prescribed flight; adjusting, in response to a consideration of actual operational characteristics of the specific aircraft, the optimized control input; and transmitting the adjusted optimized control input to the specific aircraft to operate the specific aircraft to minimize the direct operating cost for the prescribed flight.

公开(公告)号：US10460610B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-29

申请号：US15282003

申请日：2016-09-30

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Eric Richard Westervelt ,  MacKenzie Cumings ,  Mark Lawrence Darnell ,  David Lax ,  Liling Ren ,  Nicholas Visser

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/00

Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a prescribed flight from at least one of an airborne system of a particular aircraft to execute the prescribed flight and a system other than the airborne system of the particular aircraft having a source of data related to the prescribed flight, the flight data including specific details relating to at least one of the particular aircraft and parameters of the prescribed flight; performing, by a processor of an external computational asset and based on the obtained flight data, a control optimization to generate optimized path specific controls for the prescribed flight; transmitting the optimized path specific controls via a communication uplink from the external computational asset to the particular aircraft; and guiding, in response to receiving the optimized path specific controls by the particular aircraft, the particular aircraft in accordance with the optimized path specific controls to execute the prescribed flight.

公开(公告)号：US09354621B2

公开(公告)日：2016-05-31

申请号：US14305063

申请日：2014-06-16

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Eric Richard Westervelt ,  Benjamin Paul Breig ,  Mustafa Tekin Dokucu ,  Neil Richard Garrigan ,  William Dwight Gerstler ,  Javier Armando Parrilla

IPC: G05B13/02 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G05D23/19

CPC classification number: G05B13/026 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G05D23/1917

Abstract: A control system for an adaptive-power thermal management system of an aircraft having at least one adaptive cycle gas turbine engine includes a real time optimization solver that utilizes a plurality of models of systems to be controlled, the plurality of models each being defined by algorithms configured to predict changes to each system caused by current changes in input to each system. The real time optimization solver is configured to solve an open-loop optimal control problem on-line at each of a plurality of sampling times, to provide a series of optimal control actions as a solution to the open-loop optimal control problem. The real time optimization solver implements a first control action in a sequence of control actions and at a next sampling time the open-loop optimal control problem is re-posed and re-solved.

Abstract translation: 用于具有至少一个自适应循环燃气涡轮发动机的飞机的自适应功率热管理系统的控制系统包括利用要控制的多个系统模型的实时优化求解器，所述多个模型各自由算法 配置为预测由每个系统的输入的当前变化引起的每个系统的变化。 实时优化求解器被配置为在多个采样时间中的每一个在线解决开环最优控制问题，以提供作为开环最优控制问题的解决方案的一系列最佳控制动作。 实时优化求解器在控制动作序列中实现第一控制动作，并且在下一个采样时间，重新提出并解决了开环最优控制问题。