Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Charging Station for Agricultural Electrical Vehicles
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Holistic charging mechanism that is independent of the manufacturer of the vehicles.
- Decision-tree-based scheme for controlling a combination of a robotic arm and an omnidirectional mobile platform.
- To the best knowledge of the author, this is the first proof-of-concept of a dedicated autonomous charging solution for agricultural electrical vehicles.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Hardware and Software Description
2.2. The Plugs
2.3. Decision-Tree Based Architecture
2.4. Controller’s Description
2.4.1. Mobile Platform Controller
2.4.2. Robot Arm Controller
Algorithm 1: Plug control sequence. |
3. Results
4. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Parameter | Significance | Values |
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positive linear gain | 0.5 | |
positive angular gain | 0.15 | |
distance to the AEV | 0.5 m | |
distance to the wall-plug | 0.4 m |
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Harik EHC. Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Charging Station for Agricultural Electrical Vehicles. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(13):6168. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11136168
Chicago/Turabian StyleHarik, El Houssein Chouaib. 2021. "Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Charging Station for Agricultural Electrical Vehicles" Applied Sciences 11, no. 13: 6168. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11136168
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