Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought

CR Melhuish; I Ieropoulos; J Greenman; I Horsfield

doi:10.1007/s10514-006-6574-5

Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought

CR Melhuish
, I Ieropoulos
, J Greenman
, I Horsfield

Bristol Robotics Laboratory

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This paper reports on the robot EcoBot-II, which is designed to power itself solely by converting unrefined insect biomass into useful energy using on-board microbial fuel cells with oxygen cathodes. In bench experiments different 'fuels' (sugar, fruit and dead flies) were explored in the microbial fuel cell system and their efficiency of conversion to electricity is compared with the maximum available energy calculated from bomb calorimetry trials. In endurance tests EcoBot-II was able to run for 12 days while carrying out phototaxis, temperature sensing and radio transmission of sensed data approximately every 14 min.

Translated title of the contribution	Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	187 - 198
Number of pages	12
Journal	Autononmous Robots
Volume	21 (3)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-006-6574-5
Publication status	Published - Nov 2006

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