Power Management in a Robot Colony¶
Accepted by URO.
Development Notes¶
- The final deadline for the Fall 2007 proposal is March 21, 2007.
- Spring break ends March 19
- Topic: Power Management of a Robot Colony
- Layout
- Abstract
- Research Question and Significance
- Project Design and Feasibility
- Background
- Feedback and Evaluation
- Dissemination of Knowledge
- Budget Research
- Section Outline
- Abstract + Research Question and Significance
- Why should we care about power efficiency and management? (assigned to: KWoo)
- Operating in environments with limited power availability
- Robots deployed in undeveloped areas (i.e. Mars, desert, Pittsburgh slums)
- Exploring large environments
- Distance covered dependent on power capacity and usage
- Minimize power usage in a robot colony without compromising task completion (assigned to: James)
- Managing limited number of power stations to support a large colony
- Efficient usage of sensors and wireless (assigned to: Austin)
- Operating in environments with limited power availability
- Why should we care about power efficiency and management? (assigned to: KWoo)
- Abstract + Research Question and Significance
- Project Design and Feasibility
- Explanation of what Colony robots can currently do (assigned to: CMar)
- Short description of the Colony robots (copy from older SURGs)
- Localize, Autonomous Recharge, Wireless Communication, etc.
- Description of what needs to be done for better power management
- Scalable wireless network (assigned to: Brian)
- Multiple robots and charging stations on the same network
- Robust charging station <-> robot communication
- Load balancing (assigned to: Suresh)
- Multiple charging stations
- Robust charging station <-> charging station communication
- Prioritizing robots' charging requests (battery level comparison)
- Charging station placement?
- More efficient power usage (assigned to: Brad)
- Reduce # of extraneous sensor readings w/o compromising task
- Better wireless + BOM usage for localization
- Sleep modes
- Charging circuit for battery charging
- Load balancing (assigned to: Suresh)
- Scalable wireless network (assigned to: Brian)
- Explanation of what Colony robots can currently do (assigned to: CMar)
- Background
- Current Colony Project organization (copy and modify from older SURGs)
- Feedback and Evaluation
- We have meetings and talk to George Kantor (copy)
- Dissemination of Knowledge
- www.robotcolony.org (copy)
- Budget (assigned to: James and KWoo)
- Charging station parts
- Power supplies
- Revision
- Budget Addendum
- Explains the miscellaneous category in the budget
- Budget Addendum
Files¶
- Final Version: Colony_-_F07_SURG.pdf
- Budget Addendum: Colony_-_F07_SURG_Budget.pdf