Demo Abstract: FreeBot, a Battery-Free Swarm Robotics Platform
Authors: 
Mengyao Liu, Fan Yang, Sam Michiels, Tom Van Eyck, Danny Hughes, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, 
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Mengyao Liu, Fan Yang, Sam Michiels, Tom Van Eyck, Danny Hughes, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas WatteyneAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 488 - 489
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A growing range of networked embedded devices are moving away from batteries and towards super-capacitor charge storage. However, mobile robots remain largely dependent upon batteries with slow recharge cycles and limited lifetimes. In this demonstration paper, we introduce a novel battery-free platform for swarm robotics which features: 24 minutes of operation running at its top speed of 1.24 km/h, a carrying capacity of over 2.5kg, full recharge cycles of under 12 seconds and rapid peer-to-peer charge transfer or trophallaxis in the field. This is supported by an nRF52840 Cortex-M4F equipped with BLE/ANT/802.15.4 transceiver. Notably, while the autonomy of FreeBots is limited compared to battery-powered robots, their operational vs charging duty-cycle is significantly higher at over 99%.
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November 2023
574 pages
ISBN:9798400704147
DOI:10.1145/3625687
- General Chair:
- Rasit Eskicioglu,
- Program Chair:
- Polly Huang,
- Program Co-chair:
- Neal Patwari
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SenSys '23
SenSys '23: 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
November 12 - 17, 2023
Istanbul, Turkiye
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