Docking System and Power Management for Autonomous Mobile Robots

Abstract

Mobile robots’ tasks depends the batteries to supply power. Automated mobile robots should manage its power to maximize the battery performance. Docking and recharging are crucial abilities to ensure the performance of the power system. This paper presents a complete solution for a power system to address the problem of power management and autonomously recharging of batteries for a mobile robot. The main two aspects in this solution are the power management including charging of the batteries and the docking system are described in detail. The paper presents results that shown the feasibility of the proposed docking station for autonomous recharging. A comparison of different batteries tested in this project is also presented in the paper.