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- Title
Automatic Battery Swap System for Home Robots.
- Authors
Juan Wu; Guifang Qiao; Jian Ge; Hongtao Sun; Guangming Song
- Abstract
This paper presents the design and implementation of an automatic battery swap system for the prolonged activities of home robots. A battery swap station is proposed to implement battery off-line recharging and on-line exchanging functions. It consists of a loading and unloading mechanism, a shifting mechanism, a locking device and a shell. The home robot is a palm-sized wheeled robot with an onboard camera and a removable battery case in the front. It communicates with the battery swap station wirelessly through ZigBee. The influences of battery case deflection and robot docking deflection on the battery swap operations have been investigated. The experimental results show that it takes an average time of 84.2s to complete the battery swap operations. The home robot does not have to wait several hours for the batteries to be fully charged. The proposed battery swap system is proved to be efficient in home robot applications that need the robots to work continuously over a long period.
- Subjects
AUTOMATION; ROBOTS; STORAGE battery charging; ZIGBEE; DOCKING stations (Electronics)
- Publication
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1729-8806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5772/54025