{"id":1050,"date":"2019-03-26T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T02:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=1050"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:07:52","slug":"team-mechfly-2nd-place-safmc-2019","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/news\/team-mechfly-2nd-place-safmc-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Team MechFly clinches 2nd place at Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC) (Unconventional Category)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team MechFly from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) clinched 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Place in the 2019 Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC), Category E (Unconventional). The event was held at ITE College Central on 22 March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>SAFMC is an annual competition organised by DSO National Laboratories and Science Centre Singapore, and consists of several categories, open to participants from all backgrounds and nationalities. The 2019 edition saw active participation from more than a hundred teams from Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Team MechFly participated in Category E, where teams from different universities and organisations bring their most unconventional flying machines to the table, taking on a challenging obstacle course. In this category, there was a modular flying machine, a flying and rolling machine, a gigantic aircraft carrier drone and many other flying machines with whacky designs. Team MechFly\u2019s design was a Flapping Wing Quadcopter, which is a hybrid flying machine that generates lift for flight using a combination of 4 propellers and 4 sets of flapping wings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1489\" height=\"838\" class=\"wp-image-1059\" style=\"max-width: 100%\" src=\" \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/03\/booth-1.jpg\" alt=\"Booth\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong>Team MechFly booth display. (Left) Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Defence\u00a0Mr Heng Chee How, (right) ME students Yu Shi Bin and Ryan Ho.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MechFly team who participated in SAFMC 2019 consists of six undergraduate students from Mechanical Engineering. The members are, <strong>Yu Shi Bin<\/strong> (Team Leader), <strong>Kerk Zheng An<\/strong> (Pilot), <strong>Brian Leonard Suhadi<\/strong>, <strong>Joel Goh Yi Jin<\/strong>, <strong>Tan Chu Wen Samuel<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan Ho Hin Tsang<\/strong>. The MechFly team is under the mentorship of Dr Chan Woei Leong (advisor), dedicated to design and fabrication of flapping wing micro-air-vehicle (MAV).<\/p>\n<p>The SAFMC 2019 Category E consisted of 2 main segments, the presentation and flight challenge. During the flight challenge, Team MechFly\u2019s mission was to navigate through different obstacles and successfully carry out an \u201cartificial pollination\u201d mission. The artificial pollination is demonstrated through releasing a payload of glitter throughout the flying arena using a specially made device. The glitter is scattered throughout the arena using a natural phenomenon produced by the flapping wings called the \u201cdownwash effect\u201d. This simple yet unconventional method was a first in the competition and eventually left a deep and lasting impression of the judges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"wp-image-1060\" style=\"max-width: 100%\" src=\" \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/03\/Day-1-Presentation-2.jpg\" alt=\"Processed With Vsco With Hb2 Preset\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong>Team MechFly\u2019s briefing and presentation to the judges.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1027\" height=\"822\" class=\"wp-image-1061\" style=\"max-width: 100%\" src=\"\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/03\/after-flight-challenge.jpg\" alt=\"After Flight Challenge\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"913\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-1063\" style=\"max-width: 100%\" src=\"\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/03\/with-mentor.jpg\" alt=\"With Mentor\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Team MechFly 2019 full member list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Yu Shi Bin (Year 3, Team Leader 2)<\/li>\n<li>Kerk Zheng An (Year 3, Pilot)<\/li>\n<li>Brian Leonard Suhadi (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Joel Goh Yi Jin (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Tan Chu Wen Samuel (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Ho Hin Tsang (Year 2)<\/li>\n<li>Kavanoor Janarthanam Himantha Reddy (Year 3, Team Leader 1)<\/li>\n<li>Andy Ng (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Varun Honnavalli (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Dayalan Aravindhan (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Akshat Hans (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Laurence Michael Calija (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li>Sim Boon Liang (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Kwek Kai Wen (Year 4)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Visit Team MechFly at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NUS.ME.MECHFLY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NUS.ME.MECHFLY\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Students who are interested in joining the team can contact Dr. Chan Woei Leong at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:tslcwl@nus.edu.sg\"><em>tslcwl@nus.edu.sg<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank our sponsors (below) for making our participation in the SAFMC 2019 a huge success.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1274\" height=\"382\" class=\"wp-image-1064\" style=\"max-width: 100%\" src=\" \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/03\/logos.jpg\" alt=\"Logos\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team MechFly from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) clinched 2nd Place in the 2019 Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC), Category E (Unconventional). The event was held at ITE College Central on 22 March 2019. SAFMC is an annual competition organised by DSO National Laboratories and Science Centre Singapore, and consists of several categories,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1065,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[39],"class_list":["post-1050","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-all-me"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14134,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1050\/revisions\/14134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}