Power Packet Dispatching With Shared Power Line: Experimental Verification for Industrial Applications

Abstract

The power packet dispatching system is one method of electric power management with distributed power sources. The system introduces power sources and loads of different profiles and a flexible attachment/detachment of a part of them without interacting with the rest. The focus points are the physical packetization and their time-division multiplexing on the shared power line. This article verifies these concepts in industrial applications. First, experimental setups for the transfer of power packets to loads of various voltage/power requirements are developed. Then, experimental verification of the principal concepts is demonstrated with a setup assumed to be part of a robotic manipulator.