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Re:Types of Robotics Papers by calabroa on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:10PM (#27009367)
Wireless charging is much better for the use case for autonomous charging than the robot chargers... it’s equally efficient with no moving parts, less prone to failure.
Re:Types of Robotics Papers by Animats on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:36PM (#27009589)
Qualcomm Halo is able to transmit about 3.5KW. They once got up to 20KW in a demo. The technology has been sold off to WiTricity. Tesla's biggest Supercharger model transfers around 250KW. Although Qualcomm has been announcing that technology since 2013, there seem to be no non-demo installations.
Re:Types of Robotics Papers by calabroa on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:41PM (#27010130)
“A partnership between Cabonline, Jaguar, Momentum Dynamics, and Fortam Recharge are launching a wireless charging taxi fleet in Oslo, Norway. The fleet consists of 25 Jaguar I-Pace SUVs equipped with inductive charging pads rated at 50-75 kW. The pads use resonant inductive coupling operating at 85 Hz to improve wireless charging efficiency and range.” [1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/adv...
Re:Types of Robotics Papers by Animats on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:35PM (#27010505)
"Are launching". "Will be". No follow up on how it worked, a year later.
Re:Types of Robotics Papers by beambot on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:24PM (#27009503)
There's no way that wireless power transfer achieves the same efficiency as a wired connection.
Re:Types of Robotics Papers by mhh__ on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:59PM (#27010276)
The efficiency metric would need to take into account the number of cars it can charge at a given time and things like that also.