A method involves operating an aerial vehicle in a hover-flight orientation. The aerial vehicle is connected to a tether that defines a tether sphere having a radius based on a length of the tether, and the tether is connected to a ground station. The method involves positioning the aerial vehicle at a first location that is substantially on the tether sphere. The method involves transitioning the aerial vehicle from the hover-flight orientation to a forward-flight orientation, such that the aerial vehicle moves from the tether sphere. And the method involves operating the aerial vehicle in the forward-flight orientation to ascend at an angle of ascent to a second location that is substantially on the tether sphere. The first and second locations are substantially downwind of the ground station.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSITIONING AN AERIAL VEHICLE BETWEEN HOVER FLIGHT AND CROSSWIND FLIGHT


    Additional title:

    VERFAHREN UND SYSTEME ZUM ÜBERGANG ZWISCHEN EINEM SCHWEBEFLUG UND EINEM QUERABFLUG FÜR EIN LUFTFAHRZEUG
    PROCÉDÉS ET SYSTÈMES DE TRANSITION D'UN VÉHICULE AÉRIEN ENTRE VOL STATIONNAIRE ET VOL PAR VENT DE TRAVERS


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2019-09-18


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64B LIGHTER-THAN-AIR AIRCRAFT , Luftfahrzeuge leichter als Luft



    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSITIONING AERIAL VEHICLE BETWEEN HOVER FLIGHT AND CROSSWIND FLIGHT

    ERIK CHRISTOPHER CHUBB / DAMON VANDER LIND | European Patent Office | 2018

    Free access

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSITIONING AERIAL VEHICLE BETWEEN HOVER FLIGHT AND CROSSWIND FLIGHT

    ERIK CHRISTOPHER CHUBB / DAMON VANDER LIND | European Patent Office | 2020

    Free access


    Methods and systems for transitioning an aerial vehicle between crosswind flight and hover flight

    CHUBB ERIK CHRISTOPHER / VANDER LIND DAMON | European Patent Office | 2015

    Free access

    Methods and systems for transitioning an aerial vehicle between hover flight and crosswind flight

    CHUBB ERIK CHRISTOPHER / VANDER LIND DAMON | European Patent Office | 2018

    Free access