MOC: PARS aerial rescue robot

[greg3]

Hi

As seen in my latest town update, this the newest addition to my lego town's emergency services. It's a remotely piloted drone designed to help rescue swimmers in trouble by dropping floatation aids and marking their location/guiding rescuers to the location.

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Here you can see its 4 propellers.

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Side view - here you can see the life rings, searchlights and landing skids.

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Without the rescue rings... I wanted to use the lego life rings but the studs do get in the way!! I might replace them with 2x2 round plates instead just for appearance.

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How I imagine the rings being deployed... The red dish at the bottom "retracts" long enough to allow a ring to drop.

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Loosely based on the real life PARS lifeguard drone which was developed in Iran and which is due to go into service in several countries this year. The real life drone has 10 propellers and a maximum range of 7km. It's equiped with searchlights and a thermal camera allowing it to quickly locate casualties. It can then drop up to 3 life rings to keep the victims afloat until help arrives. The drones are designed to be used from land to cover busy beaches and swimming areas but may eventually be used on large ships to deal with man overboard situations.

Reference http://www.rtsideas.com/

I threw the model together in an hour or so, so I might tweak the design a bit.

Anyway, thanks for looking - comments always welcome!

[lightningtiger]

That's one cool flying robot 'greg3'.......Brick On !

[Criga88]

That's a great concept Greg, NPU on the T pieces and round plates with holes to make the rotors. I think this could be a basis for a lot of variants in the future.

[RTS Ideas]

Hi, That a great model you'v made there, a big thanks from the RTS team.