Autonomous Cargo Aerial Last Mile Resupply (A CALM-R)

问题：当前的Covid-19大流行凸显了无人机向出现症状的偏远家庭/社区快速运送大量药品/食品的必要性，这些家庭/社区不应离开家园。还需要向医院和其他医务人员提供大量个人防护装备，迄今已交付7.42亿件防护装备。政府表示，向包括药店、养老院、全科医生诊所和医院在内的5.8万家机构运送药品是一个后勤问题，也是一个“巨大的挑战”。这场危机凸显了超市送货上门的方式无法应对高需求。特易购最近宣布，高达90%的购物仍然需要在店内亲自进行。我们的创新解决方案是灵活、紧凑和可重构的重型升降混合动力无人机，将在2019冠状病毒大流行之后，在快递和交付主题领域（农村和/或城市）解决新的或正在出现的社会或行业需求。我们的解决方案：混合无人机有限公司正在开发一种改变游戏规则的解决方案，其中涉及喷气涡轮机和旋翼的新颖组合。我们的目标是能够自主携带100公斤的最大有效载荷（体积高达1立方米），在10分钟内超过10公里的距离。当前一代的全电动无人机交付系统通常限制在1-2公斤的有效载荷和20分钟的续航时间。我们灵活的喷气涡轮-电力混合设计还可以在32公里的范围内携带较小的有效载荷。更广泛的背景：在更广泛的背景下，这样的系统可以广泛应用于救灾。从1992年到2014年，洪水、干旱和风暴影响了42亿人（占所有受灾人口的95%），造成1.3万亿美元的损失。除了冠状病毒的影响外，2020年第一季度澳大利亚发生了野火，英国发生了洪水。英国国际发展部（DFID）和欧盟委员会（人道主义援助的可负担高科技）等组织才刚刚开始从使用无人机进行救灾中获益。到2050年，随着海平面上升和全球变暖引发新的极端高温、风暴和降雨，预计全球沿海城市每年遭受的洪水损失将达到1万亿美元。

THE PROBLEM:The current Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for rapid drone delivery of large amounts of medicine/food to remote households/communities who have symptoms, and therefore should not leave their homes. There is also a need to supply hospitals and other the medical staff with large amounts of personal protective equipment (PPE), with 742 million pieces of protective gear delivered to date.The government has stated that it has been a logistical problem and a 'enormous challenge' to deliver to 58,000 organisations, including pharmacies, care homes, GP surgeries and hospitals.This crisis has highlighted the inability of supermarket home delivery methods to cope with high demand. Tesco has recently announced that up to 90% of shopping will still need to be conducted in person, in store. Our innovative solution of a flexible, compact and reconfigurable heavy lift hybrid drone, will tackle the new or emerging societal or industry needs in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, within the subject area of couriers and delivery (rural and/or city based).OUR SOLUTION:Hybrid Drones Ltd are developing a game changing solution, which involves a novel combination of jet turbines and rotors. Our target is to be able to autonomously carry a maximum payload of 100 kg (with a volume of up to one cubic metre), over a distance of 10 km, within 10 minutes. The current generation of fully electric drone delivery systems are typically limited to 1-2 kg of payload and an endurance of 20 minutes. Our flexible jet turbine-electric hybrid design also enables the carriage of smaller payloads out to a range of 32 km.THE WIDER CONTEXT:In a wider context, such a system could have wide applications in disaster relief. From 1992 to 2014, floods, droughts and storms affected 4.2 billion people (95% of all people affected by disasters) and caused US$1.3 trillion worth of damage. The first quarter of 2020 has seen both wild fires in Australia and floods in the UK, in addition to the Coronavirus impact.Organisations such as the Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK, and the European Commission (Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid), are just starting the reap the benefits of using drones for disaster relief.By 2050, flood damage in the world's coastal cities is expected to reach $1 trillion a year, as sea levels rise and global warming triggers new extremes of heat, windstorms and rain.