Mobile Robot Powered by Solar Cells

Abstract:

Generally, robots are a class of technical systems which imitate or substitute driver or human intellectual functions. This is achieved by the combination of various types of handling equipment or locomotors system, causing the anthropomorphic robot character, the different types of computer equipment, or logical, which determines the intellectual functions thereof. The robots operate in a specific environment, the characteristics of which may remain constant or variable over time. While battery technology is of great interest for mobile robots, but it is not reliable in the time, there are several strategies for the storage of energy (fuel cells and the micro-fuel cell), as well as strategies for harvesting energy from the environment in various ways and energy management using sophisticated control techniques to improve power supply costs. One of these strategies is to use solar energy to power mobile robots. The solar cells appearance is due to the need to supply power spacecraft since not require maintenance for a period of time.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 681)
• Pages: 96-99
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.681.96
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Paul Ciprian Patic*, Lucia Pascale, Gabriela Măntescu
• Keywords: Dc Motor, Microcontroller, Mobile Robot, Sensor, Solar Cell

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