To operate over a long period of time in the real world, autonomous mobile robots must have the capability of recharging themselves whenever necessary. In addition to be able to find and dock into a charging station, robots must be able to decide when and for how long to recharge. This decision is influenced by the energetic capacity of their batteries and the contingencies of the environment. ...

This paper introduces an approach that allows swarm robots to maintain their individual and collective energetic homeostasis. The on-board recharging electronics and intelligent docking stations enable the robots to perform autonomous recharging from low energy states. The procedure of collective decisionmaking increases collective efficiency by preventing bottlenecks at docking stations and th...

An electric vehicle is a promising and futuristic automobile propelled by electric motor(s), using electrical energy stored in batteries or another energy storage device. Due to the need of battery recharging, the cars will be required to visit recharging infrastructure very frequently. This may disclose the users’ private information, such as their location, which may expose users’ privacy. In...

introduction hydrograph of springs represents clearly all physical processes that control ground water flows inside aquifer (kuto et al., 2012: 41). study of the curve can reveal information about structure and function of aquifer, particularly hydrodynamic parameters including permeability and storage (troch et al., 1993: 228). analysis of recession curve has the advantage to calculate paramet...