Title :
Robot docking station for automatic battery exchanging and charging
Author :
Wu, Yi-Cheng ; Teng, Ming-Chang ; Tsai, Yi-Jeng
Author_Institution :
Mech. & Syst. Res. Labs., Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu
Abstract :
The insufficient duration of the robot is an important issue, especially for security robots and surveillance robots. The battery exchanging is a perfect solution for insufficient duration. A novel design of robot docking station for automatic battery exchanging and charging is presented in this study. The battery is automatically exchanging within 45 seconds. A design of movable carrier allows a larger misalignment of plusmn9 degree between the robot and the docking station. Furthermore, the robot needs not to turn off the robot system with a specific design of electrical conduction unit, and the autonomous robot is prevented damage from surge current during the battery exchanging processes.
Keywords :
mobile robots; power supplies to apparatus; secondary cells; automatic battery charging; automatic battery exchanging; electrical conduction unit; movable carrier; robot docking station; security robots; surge current; surveillance robots; time 45 s; Batteries; Biomimetics; Laboratories; Pollution; Power supplies; Robotics and automation; Security; Service robots; Surges; Surveillance; Battery exchanging; Docking station; Robot;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics, 2008. ROBIO 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2678-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2679-9
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913144
