Delivering electricity to home appliances by mobile robots

Kentaro Ishii; Youichi Kamiyama; Wirawit Chaochaisit; Masahiko Inami; Takeo Igarashi

doi:10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907800

Delivering electricity to home appliances by mobile robots

Kentaro Ishii, Youichi Kamiyama, Wirawit Chaochaisit, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi

Graduate School of Media Design

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an electric power management system for delivering power to home appliances with mobile robots. With our system, the user places an appliance without power cables freely within the home, and a robot provides the appliance with the electric power required for its operation. In addition to providing explanations of a usage scenario and a theoretical analysis, we demonstrate a prototype implementation. The robot of the prototype autonomously locates the target appliance, transfers its battery power to the appliance, and returns to the home position to recharge its battery. The validation study showed our proof-of-concept prototype worked as expected by the theory.

Original language	English
Article number	6907800
Pages (from-to)	6375-6381
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907800
Publication status	Published - 2014 Sep 22
Event	2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014 - Hong Kong, China Duration: 2014 May 31 → 2014 Jun 7

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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