Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
In general, the autonomous robots charge their batteries by using exclusive docking stations. However, these robots's operating range are limited around charging station's area and it takes cost each time to set up a new charging point. In previous researches, to solve those problems, we suggested a new charging method called “Plugin-docking system” that inserts charging plug into outlet directly with three-dimensional control with Omnidirectional Robot. In this paper, we designed Docking results detection system, described re-docking motion and performed the experiment using the prototype to verify new system performance. It was found that Plugin-docking system could automatically detect docking results, executed re-docking motion each failed times and achieved higher docking success rate.
