| 摘要 |
A method is provided for automatically or manually optimizing independent ground travel operation in an aircraft equipped with one or more self-propelled nose or main wheels powered by a driver means, wherein selected operating parameters indicative of optimized ground travel are monitored by sensors or detectors to provide data and information relating to the selected parameters during operation of the ground travel system. Selected operating parameters can include, for example, speed, direction of travel, torque, component thermal data, aircraft location data, and operator inputs, commands, and feedback, as well as other operational data or information. Data is collected, recorded, and analyzed to enable changes to be made to the ground travel system components in real time automatically by intelligent software or manually by a system operator or at a later time to ensure optimum operation of the system. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for optimizing operation of an aircraft independent ground travel system comprising
a. providing a ground travel system to power movement of the aircraft on the ground by electric drive motors mounted to drive each of a pair of aircraft nose wheels, b. selecting operating parameters from the group comprising wheel speed, electric drive motor speed, wheel torque, electric drive motor torque, direction of aircraft travel, electric drive motor component thermal data, aircraft location data, aircraft global positioning system (GPS) data, wheel electronics data, all operator inputs and commands, all feedback to operator, all system or component pings, all boot checks, and all status checks for the electric drive motors or selected components of the electric drive motors and ranges of optimized operation for said parameters and providing for each selected operating parameter a sensor or detector adapted to monitor and obtain information about the operating parameters, operation of the electric drive motors or the selected components of the electric drive motors, c. monitoring operation of each selected parameter while said ground travel system is operational to drive the aircraft on the ground to produce a set of data relating to each selected operating parameter, recording the set of data relating to each selected operating parameter, storing the recorded set of data, analyzing and reviewing the stored set of data, d. transmitting analyzed and reviewed data indicating selected operating parameters outside optimized ground travel operating ranges to a cockpit display where an operator of the ground travel system manually takes action required to return the selected operating parameters to ranges indicative of optimized ground travel in real time, and e. alternatively, automatically modifying operation of the ground travel system in real time or at a later time when the ground travel system is in operation as required to produce optimized operation of the electric drive motors or components of the electric drive motors as indicated by the analyzed and reviewed stored data. |
