A study on trajectory control of manipulator using power packet dispatching

Abstract

In the power packet dispatching system, electric power is transferred with information tags attached physically. An application of the system to robots can enable flexible and efficient power management with a dynamically varying powerline connection between power sources and loads. In this paper, a numerical simulation verifies the achievement of a trajectory control of a manipulator by power packets. As a result, it is clarified that a conventional power conversion system at the load side can be replaced by a packet generating system at the source side. This can be a step for new power management inside robots with power packets.