An energy-encrypted contactless charging system for swarm robots

Zhang, Z.; Xu, Xiwei; Li, B.; Deng, Bin

doi:10.1109/intmag.2015.7156796

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“…the simulated pheromone [17]. Finally, researches [18][19][20] suggest to use wireless power transfer which does not suffer from the wear-and-tear of contact-based systems.…”

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Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging

Arvin

Watson

Turgut

et al. 2017

J Intell Robot Syst

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Swarm robotics studies the intelligent collective behaviour emerging from long-term interactions of large number of simple robots. However, maintaining a large number of robots operational for long time periods requires significant battery capacity, which is an issue for small robots. Therefore, recharging systems such as automated battery-swapping stations have been implemented. These systems require that the robots interrupt, albeit shortly, their activity, which influences the swarm behaviour. In this paper, a low-cost on-thefly wireless charging system, composed of several charging cells, is proposed for use in swarm robotic research studies. To determine the system's ability to support perpetual swarm operation, a probabilistic model that takes into account the swarm size, robot behaviour and charging area configuration, is outlined. Based on the model, a prototype system with 12 charging cells and a small mobile robot, Mona, was developed. A series of long-term experiments with different arenas and behavioural configurations indicated the model's accuracy and demonstrated the system's ability to support perpetual operation of multi-robotic system.

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“…the simulated pheromone [17]. Finally, researches [18][19][20] suggest to use wireless power transfer which does not suffer from the wear-and-tear of contact-based systems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%