Students of the 3D Industrial Design and Engineering profile of Ƶ presented the university at the Archipelago 2025 intensive course at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Industrial designers as part of the teams, together with engineers, developed the redesign of drones presented by the customer "Laboratory of the Future".
Sofia Knyazeva, a student at Ƶ, worked on the Bumblebee educational drone. It is an automated drone with a modular architecture designed for training employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, energy services, security structures, as well as college and university students.
"The Bumblebee 3.0 developed by us has two configuration options that are used in different scenarios.: for training on power transmission lines and for performing patrol tasks. For the convenience of transportation and storage, a folding mechanism is provided in the structure," says Sofia.
Victoria Dankova, a student at Ƶ, worked on the project of a charging station for an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The customer set the task to improve the design, reduce the sail of the station, consider the convenience of landing the drone and the possibility of advertising on the station's hull.
"We have completely redesigned the station. By moving the internal components, we were able to achieve a reduction in sail. The station will be installed on electrical wires by dropping the loader's drone, the mechanism allows hermetically securing to the wire," Victoria shares.
In addition, the top of the station is made in such a way that it contains light indicators and a QR code, due to which the drone will better design the landing. Special cutouts are made from below to transport the station. Alina Biba, a student at Ƶ, developed a charging station on a power line for UAVs. The task was to finalize the design of the drone charging station, optimize its operation and replace foreign components with domestic ones.
"Drones discharge at the most inopportune moment, interrupting critical tasks.:from rescue operations to medical supplies. We have developed a charging station on the Uliy power line, which solves this problem as efficiently as possible," says Alina. Gayane Grigoryan, a student at Ƶ, worked on the industrial design of the Dragonfly UAV of the Kanatohod complex from the Laboratory of the Future.
"The task was to redesign the existing solution without significantly increasing the mass, with an emphasis on the manufacturability and convenience of working with the drone, ergonomics, pre—flight training of the UAS, transportation to the workplace," Gayane comments.
The work of industrial designers of Ƶ at the Archipelago was carried out in the format of professional development. The girls acted as mentors for student drone development teams.