Industrial Design / Human Factors

FuDrone

A speculative passenger aerial-vehicle concept exploring personal flight through human factors, ergonomics and cockpit design.

Rendered aerial-vehicle concept with an enclosed single seat, four circular rotor housings and landing skids, shown from side, top and bottom views. — FuDrone — a speculative single-passenger aerial-vehicle concept.

Project overview

Context: Group project · three people
Duration: 5 weeks
My contribution: Research, sketching, prototyping and CAD design

01 / Human factors & research

Reference studies consider body dimensions, posture, comfort, visibility, control placement and adjustability. These considerations frame the passenger space.

Research board comparing automotive seating, aircraft instruments, sightlines and helicopter references, with a list of human-factors considerations. — Human-factors references: posture, visibility, controls and adjustability.

02 / Sketches & visual direction

Sketches explore seats, armrests, controls and the cabin profile alongside interior and exterior references.

Sketches of seats, armrests, control layouts and cabin profiles alongside interior and exterior vehicle references. — Seat, cockpit and vehicle sketches alongside visual references.

03 / Physical mockup & development

A full-scale seating mockup explores spatial relationships around the body. Development drawings bring together seat geometry, reach and the surrounding cabin.

Photographs of a person seated in a chair-and-cardboard cockpit mockup beside measured sketches of the seat and vehicle. — Full-scale seating mockup and ergonomic development drawings.

04 / Cabin, controls & scale

The CAD concept brings together an enclosed seat, displays, hand controls and pedals. A comparison with people and a car communicates the intended scale.

The features and numerical specifications on these original boards are concept proposals; the available documentation does not establish flight testing, safety certification or validated performance.

Annotated concept rendering showing the canopy and rotor layout, adjustable red seat, displays, hand controllers and pedals. — Proposed exterior, seating and control features.

Vehicle shown beside human silhouettes and a car for scale, with proposed weight, speed, flight-time and battery specifications. — Scale comparison and the original concept specifications.

05 / Imagined flight scenarios

The final visualizations place the concept in urban settings, illustrating the project’s future-oriented design direction.

Two rendered passenger drones composited over a city skyline at dusk. — An imagined personal-flight scenario above a city at dusk.

Rendered drone with an enclosed cabin and circular rotor housings composited over a futuristic city. — A second visualization of the vehicle in a future city.

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