A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an operability determination for a compressor of a gas turbine engine, the operability determination being determined using an output from a machine learning algorithm trained using data quantifying damage received by compressor blades of a compressor; determining one or more actions to be performed using the received operability determination; and generating control data using the determined one or more actions.

A computer-implemented method comprising: controlling input of data quantifying damage received by a compressor of a gas turbine engine into a first machine learning algorithm; receiving data quantifying a first operating parameter of the compressor as an output of the first machine learning algorithm; and determining operability of the compressor by comparing the received data quantifying the first operating parameter of the compressor with a threshold.

Herein provided are systems and methods for operating an aircraft engine during inclement weather. At least one image of a location substantially in line with a heading of the aircraft is acquired. Based on the at least one image, an inclement weather condition in the location is detected. An alert mode of the engine is triggered upon detecting the inclement weather condition. Responsive to the alert mode being triggered, at least one predetermined performance parameter of the engine is monitored. Upon detecting a change in the at least one predetermined performance parameter beyond a predetermined threshold, at least one operating condition of the engine is altered.

The present invention provides a large-scale high-speed rotary equipment measuring and neural network learning regulation and control method and device based on rigidity vector space projection maximization, belonging to the technical field of mechanical assembly. The method utilizes an envelope filter principle, a two-dimensional point set S, a least square method and a learning neural network to realize large-scale high-speed rotary equipment measuring and regulation and control. The device comprises a base, an air flotation shaft system, an aligning and tilt regulating workbench, precise force sensors, a static balance measuring platform, a left upright column, a right upright column, a left lower transverse measuring rod, a left lower telescopic inductive sensor, a left upper transverse measuring rod, a left upper telescopic inductive sensor, a right lower transverse measuring rod, a right lower lever type inductive sensor, a right upper transverse measuring rod and a right upper lever type inductive sensor. The method and the device can perform effective measuring and accurate regulation and control on large-scale high-speed rotary equipment.

A control system for active stability management of a compressor element of a turbine engine is provided. In one example aspect, the control system includes one or more computing devices configured to receive data indicative of an operating characteristic associated with the compressor element. For instance, the data can be received from a high frequency sensor operable to sense pressure at the compressor element. The computing devices are also configured to determine, by a machine-learned model, a stall margin remaining of the compressor element based at least in part on the received data. The machine-learned model is trained to recognize certain characteristics of the received data and associate the characteristics with a stall margin remaining of the compressor element. The computing devices are also configured to cause adjustment of one or more engine systems based at least in part on the determined stall margin remaining.

The present invention provides a deep learning regulation and control and assembly method and device for large-scale high-speed rotary equipment based on dynamic vibration response properties. The present invention starts from geometrical deviation of multiple stages of rotor/stator of an aircraft engine, amount of unbalance of rotor/stator, rigidity of rotor/stator and vibration amplitude of rotor/stator, considers the influence of the area of the assembly contact surface between two stages of rotors/stators, and sets the rotation speed of rotor/stator to be the climbing rotation speed to obtain vibration amplitude parameters. According to the calculation method of the coaxiality, amount of unbalance, rigidity and vibration amplitude of multiple stages of rotor/stator, an objective function taking assembly phases as variables is established, a Monte Carlo method is used to solve the objective function, and a probability density function is solved according to a drawn distribution function to obtain the probability relationship between the contact surface runout of the rotor/stator of the aircraft engine and the final coaxiality, amount of unbalance, rigidity and vibration amplitude of multiple stages of rotor/stator, thereby realizing assembly optimization and distribution of tolerances of multiple stages of rotor/stator.

A system for neural network compensated aero-thermodynamic gas turbine engine parameter/inlet condition synthesis. The system includes an aero-thermodynamic engine model configured to produce a real-time model-based estimate of engine parameters, a machine learning model configured to generate model correction errors indicating the difference between the real-time model-based estimate of engine parameters and sensed values of the engine parameters, and a comparator configured to produce residuals indicating a difference between the real-time model-based estimate of engine parameters and the sensed values of the engine parameters. The system also includes an inlet condition estimator configured to iteratively adjust an estimate of inlet conditions based on the residuals and adaptive control laws configured to produce engine control parameters for control of gas turbine engine actuators based on the inlet conditions.

The present invention provides a deep learning regulation and control and assembly method and device for large-scale high-speed rotary equipment based on dynamic vibration response properties. The present invention starts from geometrical deviation of multiple stages of rotor/stator of an aircraft engine, amount of unbalance of rotor/stator, rigidity of rotor/stator and vibration amplitude of rotor/stator, considers the influence of the area of the assembly contact surface between two stages of rotors/stators, and sets the rotation speed of rotor/stator to be the climbing rotation speed to obtain vibration amplitude parameters. According to the calculation method of the coaxiality, amount of unbalance, rigidity and vibration amplitude of multiple stages of rotor/stator, an objective function taking assembly phases as variables is established, a Monte Carlo method is used to solve the objective function, and a probability density function is solved according to a drawn distribution function to obtain the probability relationship between the contact surface runout of the rotor/stator of the aircraft engine and the final coaxiality, amount of unbalance, rigidity and vibration amplitude of multiple stages of rotor/stator, thereby realizing assembly optimization and distribution of tolerances of multiple stages of rotor/stator.

The present invention provides a large-scale high-speed rotary equipment measuring and neural network learning regulation and control method and device based on rigidity vector space projection maximization, belonging to the technical field of mechanical assembly. The method utilizes an envelope filter principle, a two-dimensional point set S, a least square method and a learning neural network to realize large-scale high-speed rotary equipment measuring and regulation and control. The device comprises a base, an air flotation shaft system, an aligning and tilt regulating workbench, precise force sensors, a static balance measuring platform, a left upright column, a right upright column, a left lower transverse measuring rod, a left lower telescopic inductive sensor, a left upper transverse measuring rod, a left upper telescopic inductive sensor, a right lower transverse measuring rod, a right lower lever type inductive sensor, a right upper transverse measuring rod and a right upper lever type inductive sensor. The method and the device can perform effective measuring and accurate regulation and control on large-scale high-speed rotary equipment.

A system that includes: a gas turbine having a combustion system; a control system operably connected to the gas turbine for controlling an operation thereof; and a combustion auto-tuner, which is communicatively linked to the control system, that includes an optimization system having an empirical model of the combustion system and an optimizer; sensors configured to measure the inputs and outputs of the combustion system; a hardware processor; and machine-readable storage medium on which is stored instructions that cause the hardware processor to execute a tuning process for tuning the operation of the combustion system. The tuning process includes the steps of: receiving current measurements from the sensors for the inputs and outputs; given the current measurements received from the sensors, using the optimization system to calculate an optimized control solution for the combustion system; and communicating the optimized control solution to the control system.