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Towards Long-Term Collective Experiments

Vaussard, Florian Christopher  
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Rétornaz, Philippe  
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Roelofsen, Steven  
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2013
Proceeding of the International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS-12)
International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS-12)

It is often challenging to manage the battery supply when dealing with a fleet of mobile robots during long experiments. If one uses classical recharge stations, then agents are immobilized during the whole recharge process. In this study, we present a novel approach that employs a battery pack swapping station. Batteries are charged in a rotating barrel, and the robots dock only for the time of the hot-swap process. We attained an unavailability time of only 40 seconds, with a success rate of 100 % on a total of 46 trials. Experiments above 8 hours are performed in three arenas with different configurations, which proves the relevance of our approach.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-33932-5_64
Web of Science ID

WOS:000313768300064

Author(s)
Vaussard, Florian Christopher  
Rétornaz, Philippe  
Roelofsen, Steven  
Bonani, Michael  
Rey, François  
Mondada, Francesco  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Publisher place

Berlin

Published in
Proceeding of the International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS-12)
ISBN of the book

978-3-642-33931-8

Total of pages

10

Series title/Series vol.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; 194

Volume

12

Start page

683

End page

692

Subjects

battery exchange

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mobile robot

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[MOBOTS]

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
LSRO  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS-12)

Jeju Island, Korea

June 26-29, 2012

Available on Infoscience
April 10, 2012
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