• DocumentCode
    1658495
  • Title

    Design of the solar-driven module on modular mobile robot

  • Author

    Yanqiong Fei ; Haiyang Lv

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. of Robot., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    470
  • Lastpage
    473
  • Abstract
    A novel solar-driven modular mobile robot is designed. In the solar module, an independent and rotary mechanism with two degrees of freedom is presented. One kind of photo-resistance array solar angular sensors is designed, which can detect the direction of the sunlight. A method on how to control the rotation of the solar panel and track the sun is analyzed with the independent, two degrees of freedom, row-column algorithm. The experiment shows that the modular mobile robot can track the sun effectively.
  • Keywords
    mobile robots; optical sensors; position control; solar cell arrays; Sun tracking; photoresistance array solar angular sensor; rotary mechanism; row-column algorithm; solar panel rotation control; solar-driven modular mobile robot; solar-driven module design; sunlight direction detection; Arrays; Manipulators; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Sensors; Sun;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), 2012 19th International Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Auckland
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1643-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6484633