Rainpiper – Forest Fire Fighting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Concept and design:
Simon Bruhn @simon_bruhns
Supervision:
Prof. Jan Bäse @jan.baese
Björn Vibrans (Design Director Design3) @design3_official
second place at the James Dyson Award 2023 Germany
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Rainpiper is an autonomous drone swarm that fights forest fires. When Rainpiper is called out on a mission, one or more Rainpiper platforms transport the folded drones to the base of operations. Each platform can transport up to forty drones. From the platform, the drones can successively take off and fly the last kilometres to the active fire front. Each hydrogen-powered drone has a flight time of up to eight minutes. After spraying their extinguishing agent over the forest fire, the drone returns to the platform for refilling. Within one minute, the extinguishing agent and hydrogen tanks are filled and the drone can take off for the next flight. This cycle repeats for all drones until the fire is extinguished or the mission goal is achieved. This ensures a continuous flow of water around the clock, even in poor visibility and bad weather.
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