Design of a contactless battery charger for micro-robots

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 985-990

  Mukhopadhyay, S C ^a   Sen Gupta, G ^a   Lake, B J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Flux; High permeability core; Magnetic pickup coil; Non contact charging; Soccer robot

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

FLUX; HIGH PERMEABILITY CORE; MAGNETIC PICKUP COIL; NON-CONTACT CHARGING; SOCCER ROBOT;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 51349159181     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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