Title :
Design of the solar-driven module on modular mobile robot
Author :
Yanqiong Fei ; Haiyang Lv
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. of Robot., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
A novel solar-driven modular mobile robot is designed. In the solar module, an independent and rotary mechanism with two degrees of freedom is presented. One kind of photo-resistance array solar angular sensors is designed, which can detect the direction of the sunlight. A method on how to control the rotation of the solar panel and track the sun is analyzed with the independent, two degrees of freedom, row-column algorithm. The experiment shows that the modular mobile robot can track the sun effectively.
Keywords :
mobile robots; optical sensors; position control; solar cell arrays; Sun tracking; photoresistance array solar angular sensor; rotary mechanism; row-column algorithm; solar panel rotation control; solar-driven modular mobile robot; solar-driven module design; sunlight direction detection; Arrays; Manipulators; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Sensors; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), 2012 19th International Conference
Conference_Location :
Auckland
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1643-9
