Scarecrow Plant Protection Drone by Guangpeng Yue is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Agricultural Tools, Farming Equipment and Machinery Design Competition Category.
IronAgricultural Equipment· 2021
Scarecrow Plant Protection Drone
Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
A' Design Award Winner in Agricultural Equipment Category
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About Scarecrow Plant Protection Drone
Scarecrow is a plant protection drone designed for farmland use. The drone completes spraying operations and returns to its base through program control. An eight axis redundant design and an adaptive power protection algorithm allow safe flight even if one axis fails. A sound system plays bird calls to move birds away from the fields without harming them. The main frame is made of carbon fiber, the link parts are 3D printed titanium alloy, and the rotors are injection molded. The rotors also collect wind energy for self charging while the drone waits.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Scarecrow Plant Protection Drone is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Scarecrow Plant Protection Drone is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Scarecrow Plant Protection Drone is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The product completes plant protection operations and homing through program control, and collects wind energy through its own rotor to complete self charging. 8 axis redundant design with adaptive power protection algorithm. The main body of the scarecrow is equipped with a sound system to disperse the birds around the farmland by playing the screams of birds, so as to protect the farmland while not harming the birds.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Length 1200 mm, width 400 mm, the diameter of each shaft is 343 mm.
- Tags
- Plant protection, pesticide spraying, drones, automation, hunger reduction.
- Production Technology
- 8 axis redundant design, adaptive power protection algorithm, pesticide spraying control technology, the main frame uses carbon fiber high temperature molding process, the link part uses 3 D printing titanium alloy, and the rotor and other parts use injection molding process.
- Design Challenge
- Our challenge is to integrate form and function, taking into account the aesthetics of form and functionality.
- Research
- Scarecrow has an 8 axis redundant design, combined with an adaptive power protection algorithm, even if one axis fails during flight, it can maintain safe flight. The product comes with audio module, charging module and camera module. When the drone battery is full, the excess battery will be transferred to the docking pole.
- Inspiration
- So far, the food famine caused by the locust plague has been a problem that people all over the world are suffering. The source of the overall design of the Scarecrow is the abstract simplification of the organic form of the branches, and the fuselage and bracket adopt an integrated streamline form.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in September 2020 and ended in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in December 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Use the set program to automatically complete the plant protection operation. After completion, it will use its own data cloud and GPS to accurately locate the location and stand by. During the waiting process, the charging module is connected to the docking column, the self charging is completed by collecting wind energy from its own rotor.
- Team Members
- Guangpeng Yue
Fengze Li
Hang Yin
Lin Xia
Hongbo Ren
Ziming Yang
Haitao Yuan
Siyu Ding
Mengyao Gao
Zhiyuan Guo
Yingyi Li
Jiayang Zhang
Huaidong Yang
Xi Zhu
Jing Wang
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