The technology relates to health and lifetime estimation for a lighter-than-air vehicle. A method for vehicle health and lifetime estimation may include receiving flight data inputs associated with a vehicle, determining a gas temperature based on the flight data inputs, estimating a gas amount remaining in a balloon envelope of the vehicle, estimating a gas leak rate based on the gas amount, estimating a component lifetime representing an estimated lifetime of a component of the vehicle, and determining a remaining lifetime output based on one or both of the gas leak rate or the component lifetime, the remaining lifetime output indicating a remaining lifetime estimate for the vehicle. The method also may include simulating a terminal event and causing the vehicle to take an action based on the remaining lifetime estimate.
Lighter-than-air (LTA) Vehicle Health and Lifetime Estimation
2022-06-30
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Lighter-than-air (LTA) Vehicle Health and Lifetime Estimation
Europäisches Patentamt | 2022
|Lighter-than-air (LTA) Vehicle Health and Lifetime Estimation
Europäisches Patentamt | 2022
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