Amphibious Primary Function: Drone di Salvezza by Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang

Amphibious Primary Function: Drone di Salvezza by Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award d'Argentu in Prudutti di Sicurezza Competition Category.

ArgentuPrudutti di Sicurezza· 2021

Amphibious Primary Function: Drone di Salvezza

by Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang

Client: Junkai Shao

A' Design Award d'Argentu Winner in Prudutti di Sicurezza Category

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The Design

About Amphibious Primary Function: Drone di Salvezza

Amphibious hè un drone di salvezza portabile cuncepitu per a risposta à i disastri. Amphibious cumbina l'inchiesta nantu à i disastri, a rilevazione di vita, u pusizziunamentu di ricerca è salvezza, u trasportu d'attrezzatura è l'alluminazione d'emergenza. E quattru ale ponu esse ruttate per furmà una mudalità portabile, una mudalità di volu o una mudalità d'immersione. I dispusitivi radar di rilevazione di vita nantu à u bordu esternu di l'ale aiutanu à lucalizà i sopravviventi, mentre chì e luci nantu à u bordu internu sustenenu u travagliu in i zone bughjose. U corpu hè fattu di alluminiu d'aviazione ligeru, plastica è materiali cumpositi. U drone pò esse piegatu è purtatu in una saccula à spalla.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argentu

Amphibious Primary Function: Drone di Salvezza hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu, una ricunniscenza straordinariamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di alta gamma, splendidi è impressiunanti. I vincitori d'Argentu sò opere tremendamente brillanti è estremamente creative chì illustranu l'espertisa, u talentu è l'acutezza eccezziunali di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Amphibious Primary Function: Drone di Salvezza sia una opera maravigliosa di mostra, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è prufondamente innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu hè una invenzione assai nutevule è ammirata chì benefizia è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Amphibious Primary Function: Drone di Salvezza hè una creazione assai invidiata chì evoca disideri, introduce sentimenti pusitivi è accende stupore è maraviglia.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a portable amphibious rescue drone, which integrates disaster investigation, life detection, search and rescue positioning, equipment transportation and emergency lighting functions. It can turn four wings to form portable mode, flight mode or diving mode. The outer diameter of the four wings is equipped with radar life detection device to locate the rescue position of the survivors. The inner diameter is equipped with detection light, which can deal with the search and rescue tasks in dark areas.
Dimensions & Packaging: Aviation aluminum lightweight design is adopted, and the surface of the fuselage is coated with solar film coating, which can convert solar energy into electrical energy and store it in the internal battery for self supply and use. Multipoint life detection radar is on the outside of four wings, which transmits pulse electromagnetic waves in multiple directions through ultra wide spectrum radar to detect survivors.
Tags: Disaster rescue, Amphibious drone, Life detection, Search location, Foldable design
Production Technology: It is formed by mould, and then fixed to the structure frame of plastic, aluminum alloy and composite material by riveting and screwing to form the wing and related movable surface.
Design Challenge: The most difficult part is to fully consider the complexity and variability of disaster environment, how to design better practical products to assist the rescue work of search and rescue personnel.
Research: With the rapid development of industrial economy, environmental problems are becoming more and more serious. The frequent occurrence of natural disasters brings threats to people's lives. In the early stage, through questionnaire survey and demand analysis, the product function and use mode are positioned, and then the first draft of the product is obtained by brainstorming and concept sketch. Rhino is used for modeling, Keyshot for rendering and PS for use scenario and typesetting and finally simulation test is carried out.
Inspiration: In the rescue of mountainous region or rock cave and other special environmental disasters, the manual use of equipment to search survivors is inefficient and risky, which is easily limited by terrain and underwater environmental conditions and lacks flexibility. In addition, the functional application of rescue equipment is single and not easy to carry, so it is difficult to cope with the dynamic changeable environments and chain emergencies caused by natural disasters.
Project Duration: The project started in May 2019 in Nanjing and finished in December 2020 in Nanjing.
Operation Flow: For the application of different environments, such as mountain or underwater environment, the rescue drone can adjust the four wing angle to change the operation mode. Through the radar to detect life features to locate the search and rescue location of survivors. When it doesn't need to work, it can be folded and put into the backpack.
Team Members: Junkai Shao
Wenzhe Tang
Image Credits: Image #1: Designer Junkai Shao, 2019.