One-seat drone without auto-flight and pilot unnecessary "EHANG 184"

Chinese drone maker "EHANG-Home", A passenger drone under development"EHANG 184In Las Vegas, USACES 2016We announced at the venue. According to EHANG, EHANG 184 allows a person to fly alone and can fly while confirming the safety of the surrounding by simply designating the destinationAAV(Autonomous Aerial Vehicle: an autonomous plane).

EHANG-Home
http://www.ehang.com/index.html

Ehang's autonomous helicopter promises to fly you anywhere, no pilot required | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10721654/electric-self-flying-quadcopter-ehang-184-ces-2016

EHANG 184 is a passenger drone that people can fly and fly. Four arms extend from the cabin where people ride, the appearance of loading the rotor ahead of that is just the drones themselves.


Four arms extend from a cabin designed like a passenger car, and two arms are equipped ahead. It is a multicopter that rotates a total of 8 rotors and fly.


The shape of the cabin part is similar to that of a helicopter fuselage. In addition, the arm can be folded and stored compactly as follows.


Looking at the perspective view, you can see that the aircraft is a size that allows a person to ride just one person. The concept is exactly like a vehicle that made the drones bigger and made human beings ride.


The interior is equipped with a bucket shaped seat that allows people to fit snugly.


On the end of the boom extending from the side of the seat, a tablet for directing the aircraft is attached. Air conditioning and interior lights are prepared in the room, and it seems that there will be a luggage space to hold a small package. Since the crew does not need to steer, there are no equipment such as control sticks.


The total height of the aircraft is 2047 mm, the total length including the rotor is 3866 × 2899 mm. Although the aircraft is said to be made of carbon fiber resin and aluminum, the weight is announced around 200 kg.


EHANG 184 can carry a maximum of 100 kg of baggage including one crew member and can fly for about 23 minutes and about 16 km. It is possible to flight at an average speed of 100 km by rotating the rotor with eight motors with a total output of 106 kW, up to a height of 500 m at the maximum. If this really happens, it will definitely be a pretty groundbreaking ride.


EHANG 184, which seems to expect a lot in the venue of CES 2016, according to The Verge, who is interviewing the site, at this stage it still crosses the stage of "idea concept" It is not things. At EHANG 's site etc, EHANG 184 can see the movie being flying, but most of it is a picture by CG, it can not be confirmed that the person actually carrying the person is flying.


It is possible to confirm the situation that EHANG 184 is flying in the second half of the following movie, but you can not see how people are carrying. Also, although a map showing the area around Las Vegas is displayed, it is impossible to fly in the United States as will be described later, so it is undeniable that there is a question as to whether it was photographed by actually skipping.

EHANG 184, world's first Autonomous Aerial Vehicle - YouTube


In the case of flying such an aircraft in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)Airworthiness certificateAlthough it is necessary to receive, at this stage it is not approved and actual flight is impossible. Although EHANG seems to have said "I carried out a flight test in China," it is said that I could not confirm the images and materials that can confirm the situation.


Although it is impossible to avoid the question of how to secure safety with the surroundings and similar aircraft body at the stage of actually flying with people, it is also uncertain at this stage regarding this matter. Although it seems that further development will be carried out from now on, it seems a little before to see how people actually fly.

In addition, Ehang is a Chinese drone maker and is developing products like "GHOSTDRONE 2.0" below.

EHANG | Yousu Airfare - Home


◆ June 20, 06 09: 37 Addendum:
EHANG 184 was officially announced that it will start a flight test in the state of Nevada in the latter half of 2016. Flight test supports academic effortsNevada Institute for Autonomous Systems(NIAS)It is said that the future development such as whether EHANG 184 sales base will be Nevada state or not is undecided.

Passenger-carrying drone company will test in Nevada | Las Vegas Review-Journal
http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/passenger-carrying-drone-company-will-test-nevada

The EHang 184 Is A Human-Sized Drone Taking Off At CES | TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/06/the-ehang-184-is-a-human-sized-drone-taking-off-at-ces/