Solar powered autonomous explorer architecture

Author

Jeedella, Jeedella ; Al-Qutayri, Mahmoud ; Sahem, Mohammed

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng., Khalifa Univ., Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2011

fDate

26-27 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

77

Abstract

This paper presents the architecture of a solar powered autonomous explorer. The autonomous explorer employs smart power management system to harvest its energy from the solar energy and monitors its usage in the system. Also it monitors its surrounding environment and communicates with a control base station. The explorer incorporates appropriate sensors to monitor various environmental conditions. The complete system was fully implemented as a prototype and its operation modes were verified. The system architecture is highly flexible and scalable one which enables expansion whenever the need arises.

Keywords

computerised monitoring; energy harvesting; mobile robots; power system control; power system management; software architecture; solar power; control base station; energy harvesting; environmental conditions; operation modes; smart power management system; solar energy; solar powered autonomous explorer architecture; surrounding environment; system architecture; Base stations; Batteries; Global Positioning System; Monitoring; Robot sensing systems; autonomous; microcontroller; power management; solar; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT), 2011 International Conference and Workshop on

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0097-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0096-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTIT.2011.6107937

Filename

6107937