Demo Abstract: FreeBot, a Battery-Free Swarm Robotics Platform
Résumé
A growing range of networked embedded devices are moving away
from batteries and towards super-capacitor charge storage. How-
ever, mobile robots remain largely dependent upon batteries with
slow recharge cycles and limited lifetimes. In this demonstration
paper, we introduce a novel battery-free platform for swarm ro-
botics which features: 24 minutes of operation running at its top
speed of 1.24 km/h, a carrying capacity of over 2.5kg, full recharge
cycles of under 12 seconds and rapid peer-to-peer charge transfer
or trophallaxis in the field. This is supported by an nRF52840 Cortex-
M4F equipped with BLE/ANT/802.15.4 transceiver. Notably, while
the autonomy of FreeBots is limited compared to battery-powered
robots, their operational vs charging duty-cycle is significantly
higher at over 99%.
Domaines
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