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Imitating Metabolism: Energy Autonomy in Biologically Inspired Robots

Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish

Year
2003
Citations
35

Abstract

This paper reports on the initial work to produce an artificial metabolic system for an energetically autonomous robot using a Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC). We describe the fuel cell developed in our laboratory and demonstrate that it is feasible to provide sufficient power for a mobile robot platform to execute photo tactic 'pulsed' behaviour.

Keywords

Microbial fuel cellRobotMobile robotComputer scienceFuel cellsAutonomous robotEnergy metabolismWork (physics)Chemical energyArtificial intelligence

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