NDLI: Design of a small and low-cost power management unit for a cockroach-like running robot

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Author	Lesperance, E. Desbiens, A.L. Roux, M.-A. Lavoie, M.-A. Fauteux, P.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. de Sherbrooke, Que., Canada (Lesperance, E.; Desbiens, A.L.; Roux, M.-A.; Lavoie, M.-A.; Fauteux, P.)
Abstract	Without a properly designed power management unit, power failures are to be expected on systems raining on batteries. Unfortunately, there is no low cost fully configurable unit that is available on the market for small mobile robots. This paper presents the design of a power management unit for a six legged pneumatic robot that runs at a top speed of 1.11 m/s. The system consists of a main unit that acts as a fast charger, a power supply and a monitor of the energy left available to the robot. This unit communicates with small circuit embedded on each NiMH battery, which gives their level and stores the battery's parameters so that the charger can adapt its charging algorithm to batteries of different capacity or chemistry. Furthermore, this power management unfit takes advantage of the controller area network (CAN) and the PIC18F brain to act as a monitoring, fully configurable, remotely controllable and autonomous node.
Starting Page	2387
Ending Page	2392
File Size	224845
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780389123
DOI	10.1109/IROS.2005.1545595
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-08-02
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Energy management Power system management Battery management systems Costs Mobile robots Legged locomotion Power supplies Monitoring Circuits Chemistry Running Robot Power Management Unit Battery NiMH CAN
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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