NDLI: Solar Cell Powering with Integrated Global Positioning System for mm3 Size Robots

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Boletis, A. Driesen, W. Breguet, J.-M. Brunete, A.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Laboratoire des Syst. Robotiques, Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (Boletis, A.; Driesen, W.; Breguet, J.-M.)
Abstract	A new concept of a solar cell powering with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) for microrobots is proposed. The main idea is to use a projector to transfer energy and to provide global positioning information to the robots that are equipped with multi-segment solar cells on their top. First tests with a 3000 ANSI lumens beamer projecting a white image showed a scavenged power of 7.1 and 27.8 $muW/mm^{2}$ for commercially available crystalline silicon solar cells and for thin film amorphous silicon solar cell respectively. Regarding the Global Positioning System, the projector sends regularly a sequence of 17 images and the robot decodes them using two independent solar cell segments acting as photodiodes in order to calculate its own position and orientation inside a defined arena. First experimental results on a large scale prototype are presented. For 2.65 times 2.65 $mm^{2}$ photodiodes the x, y and angular resolution are 4 mm, 3 mm and 6 degrees respectively inside an arena of 512times384 mm2 and the duration of the sequence is 0.85 s
Starting Page	5528
Ending Page	5533
File Size	6563014
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424402581
DOI	10.1109/IROS.2006.282191
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-10-09
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Photovoltaic cells Global Positioning System Robots Photodiodes Testing Crystallization Semiconductor thin films Amorphous silicon Decoding Image segmentation Micro-robotics Solar Cell Powering GPS
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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