Swarm Robots Long Term Autonomy Using Moveable Charger

Author

Arvin, Farshad ; Samsudin, Khairulmizam ; Ramli, Abdul Rahman

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Syst. Eng., Univ. of Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 April 2009

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

130

Abstract

This paper proposes an alternative docking charger station for mobile robots. One crucial task in swarm robots scenario is to find low battery robots and recover them. Overcoming this problem requires a versatile mobile charging station that is able to actively locate and charge inactive mobile robots unlike the conventional stationary docking stations. The mobile charger robot should perform independent tasks other than the swarm robots global task. It uses similar communication method with other swarm robots, however new preprogrammed instructions are required to facilitate battery charging task for swarm robots.

Keywords

mobile robots; multi-robot systems; battery charging task; long term autonomy; mobile robot; moveable docking charger station; preprogrammed instruction; swarm robot; Batteries; Computer interfaces; Humans; Intelligent robots; Mobile robots; Navigation; Portable computers; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Service robots; Docking; Mobile robot; Recharging station; Swarm robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Computer and Communication, 2009. ICFCC 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpar

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3591-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICFCC.2009.48

Filename

5189756