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The Humming Man Project
By Winfried Rijssenbeek and Eko Leksono
Date 03/09/14
The Team, who’s involved:
Winfried Rijssenbeek,
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Passionate on flying and technology
fanatic,
Favoring open source R&D,
Energy advisor in daily life and networker
on solar energy.
Kees de Blok,
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Measurements and testing of electric
systems ,
R&D in development of energy systems,
R&D in thermo acoustics in daily life
Eko Leksono,
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Passionate about multi copters for
agriculture,
Agricultural student in daily life.
Barry Ploeg,
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New
Passionate on technical and innovative
constructions,
Working as designer in Ploeg company.
The Idea
Make a humming man craft or man drone;
As open source and with students and experts;
Test the craft for the different aspects;
Make PR for a wider public (eg. TED, Youtube);
Get large investor community (Google, Tesla, BYD, etc.)
interested;
∗ Promote competition on different shapes (award);
∗ Work with more teams to further development of issues,
batteries, safety, flight control, etc..
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Why of this idea:
Fun: the idea of flying like a humming bird has always
challenged many people; first wish of people to happen in
their dreams!
Inevitable part of our future: used for applications:
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Fun and competition craft (in 1 year)
Inspection (in 2 years)
Manual 3 D (idem)
Emergency (5 to 7 years)
Carrier (5 years)
Personal vehicle (5 to 10 years)
Detailing
∗ Inspection tasks: man drones to get to places, not accessible by other means
with that costs and speed;
∗ Manual 3D tasks: man drones to bring a person to places to carry out tasks
not accessible by other means with that cost and speed; eg in emergency
helping/correcting/repairing. Eg. a medical staff being brought to an
inaccessibly place to help the injured in that area; Eg. a technician helping to
close down a valve in a petrochemical plant with high risks;
∗ Emergency tasks: to take out a person from a otherwise not accessible
location, without risking a pilot’s life. A wounded/injured person/patient can
be brought to the hospital or emergency centre at high speed without the
need of an helicopter;
∗ Fire fighting tasks: carrying 80 kg, it can spray quite some foam;
∗ Carrier of emergency goods: medication, tools, emergency food, water.. ;
∗ Agriculture and forestry: doing such extensive tasks like manual
surveying, spot seeding, spraying, picking precious seeds;
∗ Nature and environmental tasks: man drones allow non pollution close to
nature contact: e.g. tropical forest canopy research.
How we see the development over
time
∗ Starts with a challenge: flying in a small craft like a
humming bird, this is just fun;
∗ Freaks (early innovators) move and further this concept;
take part in matches, make fun and sport with it;
∗ Next, endless opportunities will be seen, like using it for
short distance and low altitude, for emergency relief, for
carrying parcels;
∗ With more technology, the craft will become more
powerful and useful as personal transporter.
One dream of mankind:
Flying like a humming bird
Different shapes, eg cowlings
The Background
The Greeks had
Icarus who used
wax wings, but
the sun blew
them away.
The German bird
man,
Otto
Lilienthal did is
first steps from
the hills with an
imitated the birds
shape.
The Wright brothers got
their craft powered.
Igor Sikorsky invented
the heli. And so the list
goes on.
Then comes the US army
Since the 50 ies,
the US army
invented a flying
suit and it worked
with mixed
success. Stability
was a major issue.
Often the
propellers were
driven by internal
combustion
engines, that
difficult to control
for the balance.
Recent Developments
Today the Remote Control (RC)
community, the people that like to
fly model aircraft, have:
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Powerful electric motors,
Controllers,
Transmitters and RC systems,
Software (GPS, intelligence, sensors),
New battery materials (nano),
to allow the dream of flying like a
humming bird come true.
How the humming craft works
∗ Program your flight (see the reply on possibility,
expected flight time, weather forecast, etc.);
∗ Strap your self on the craft;
∗ Check system;
∗ Start the system;
∗ Enjoy your flight, semi-automatic or manual;
∗ Land on your destination!
What’s the cost?
∗ We can develop the first prototype and test it and
improve it. This will if all paid for be 50.000 to
100.000.
∗ We the prototype alone will cost approx. 20.000
(including all work as cost)
∗ Think that the system should be on the market in
larger volumes for less than 10.000 Euro! The
ultimate production costs should be around 5000
Euro, once mass produced!
The components and costs
Parameters
Unit
Price
Total
price
Unit
Weight
Total
Weight
Euro
Euro
kg
kg
6
417
2502
2.5
15.2
82
56
4565
0.6
47.0
Battery boxes
6
5
30
0.1
0.6
Propellors
6
15
90
0.2
1.2
Controler
6
273
1638
0.4
2.4
Airframe
1
90
455
0.0
5.0
Radio control
1
500
500
0.5
0.5
Motors
Batteries no
Totals
No
9780
72.0
How do we want to proceed?
Start-up capital through CROWD FUNDING
50,000 Euro
Results are then:
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A lively network of experts joining the team,
Design drawings and material lists,
Working prototype and tests,
Participants can have a try,
All technology background documented,
DIY guide on how to make the craft.
Continued
∗ Work together with different
teams around the globe who
share this dream:
∗ to build prototypes with local
funding, and
∗ to work out the issues that still
are to be furthered, like safety
(eg. parachute, airbags) , flight
duration time, etc..
∗ So we invite you to join and sit
together to see who’s wanting to
contribute to what?
Li Air Battery Hopes
Man-drone teams around the globe?
Europe Team
Brazil Team
China Team
USA Team
India Team
South Africa
Team
Time line project from August 2014
to May 2015
∗ Fund raising on small scale friends and family (Aug 2014 to Sept
2014)
∗ Team extension with interested parties (Starting Aug 2014)
∗ Tasks to be worked out by the team and assigning (Sept 2014)
∗ Ordering material and equipment according to list (Sept 2014)
∗ Testing components of craft (Oct to Dec. 2014)
∗ Building the prototype together (Dec 2014 to Feb 2015)
∗ Testing the prototype (Feb to April 2015 )
∗ Crowd funding ( Starting Feb 2015)
∗ Reporting (monitoring and youtube’s) Continuous
∗ DIY guide development (Feb to May, 2015)
∗ Selecting production locations, outlets (As of May, 2015)
Is it technically possible?
Yes , see most simple calculations
∗ 6 electric motors of 10 kW can push 26.6 kg per unit;
so lifting 160 kg;
∗ The energy needed is 60 kWh per hr; or 6 kWh per 6
min Li-ion is doing 0.11 kWh/kg so we need 55 kg
batteries;
∗ Craft and motors weigh 22 kg, leaving 83 for payload;
∗ Future batteries (Li-air, Alum-air, Zinc-air) > 1000 to
2000 kWh/kg so allowing one to two hours fight.
Some of the technical calculations
Parameter
Unit
Value
Value
Value
Volume per Pack
dm3
0.24
0.28
0.16
Cost per Pack
Euro
29.00
55.91
55.91
Cost per Wh
Euro
0.39
0.76
1.26
Cost per W capac
Euro
0.08
0.06
0.08
No of packs for voltage
No
4.30
4.30
8.59
No of Packs for amps
No
45.60
17.54
12.67
No of Packs for flight time
No
19.00
19.00
15.83
Who can contribute?
1. Experts (Robotics, Drones, Batt.
Technology, Aerodynamics, Safety Devices)
2. Students in Technology, Social Media,
Marketing
3. Business Community Innovators
4. Investors
Technical specfications prototype
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Empty weight: ca 23 kg
Frame carbon fibre tubes
Electric motors: 6 of Rotomax 150 cc
Propellers (23 x10 inch)
Flight duration prototype 6 min
Flight height prototype < 50 m
Max weight prototype 75 kg
Battery capacity 84 Lipo batteries (14 V (4S) and 5 Amph)
Thanks to those who already contributed
with pictures and 3 D models on which
we could build!
You are invited
Hope we hear from you!
Thanks and courtesy to all sources we
used to build this dream
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www.carolinabirdclub.org
Song "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime" by Nena
www.geekweek.pl (Williams X-Jet)
teknologi-sederhana18.blogspot.com (Martin Jetpack)
www.hobbyking.com (Turnigy brushless motor, flight controller, Turnigy LiPo battery)
www.archive.org/details/SCESA030
http://www.aero-mag.com/features/18/201211/1641/ (airbags and safety)
www.graupner.de (Graupner HoTT RC transmitter)
www.suasnews.com (drone mapper)
www.teslamotors.com (Tesla Model S electric car)
www.engadget.com (Tesla battery)
www.yaabot.com and www.honezone.com (Google driveless car)
www.winnipegfreepress.com (Driveless cars systems)
www.thecoolector.com (DIY guide)
http://www.extremeflightrc.com/ (pictures team and RC aircraft in video)
bu.university.we.bs (teamwork picture)
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smart_grid/article/battery500.html (IBMLi air project)
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/nasa-test-new-crash-tech-dropping-helicopter ( Airbags on
helicopter)
International Journal of Energy Science (IJES) Volume 3 Issue 3, June 2013 www.ijesci.org A New Type of Rotor
+ Airbag Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Join the Humming Man Team
Winfried Rijssenbeek
Email: winfriedrijssenbeek@gmail.com
Tel: +31 65-317-2983
Skype: winfriedrijssenbeek1