Method for managing the continuous climb of an aircraft or drone

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11934205
APP PUB NO 20220390959A1
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17775865

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Methods and devices for optimizing the climb of an aircraft or drone are provided. After an optimal continuous climb strategy has been determined, a lateral path is determined, in particular in terms of speeds and turn radii, based on vertical predictions computed in the previous step. Subsequently, computation results are displayed on one or more human-machine interfaces and the climb strategy is actually flown. Embodiments describe the use of altitude and speed constraints and/or settings in respect of speed and/or thrust and/or level-flight avoidance and/or gradient-variation minimization, and iteratively fitting parameters in order to make the profile of the current path coincide with the constrained profile in real time depending on the selected flight dynamics (e.g. energy sharing, constraint on climb gradient, constraint on the vertical climb rate). System (e.g. FMS) and software aspects are described.

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THALESTOUR CARPE DIEM PLACE DES COROLLES ESPLANADE NORD 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Boyer, Johan Toulouse, FR 14 95
Durand, Geoffrey Toulouse, FR 8 9
Sacle, Jérôme Toulouse, FR 23 218

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