@inproceedings{b33b462290954ae7b8a4e181256001a5,
title = "Zerone: Safety drone with blade-free propulsion",
abstract = "We present ZeRONE, a new indoor drone that does not use rotating blades for propulsion. The proposed device is a helium blimp type drone that uses the wind generated by the ultrasonic vibration of piezo elements for propulsion. Compared to normal drones with rotating propellers, the drone is much safer because its only moving parts are the piezo elements whose surfaces vibrate at the order of micrometers. The drone can float for a few weeks and the ultrasonic propulsion system is quiet. We implement a prototype of the drone and evaluate its performance and unique characteristics in experiments. Moreover, application scenarios in which ZeRONE coexists with people are also discussed.",
keywords = "Blade-free, Drone, Microblower",
author = "Wataru Yamada and Hiroyuki Manabe and Daizo Ikeda",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).; 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 ; Conference date: 04-05-2019 Through 09-05-2019",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/3290605.3300595",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}