0 present participle of recharge
1 If a battery recharges, it becomes filled with electricity so that it can work again and if you recharge a battery, you fill it with electricity.
This reduces the payload and increases the time that the robot can travel before its batteries need recharging.
Interestingly, a robot that has run out of power away from the recharging station could be rescued by receiving power from another robot.
Trials of different group size are interleaved and inactive robots are automatically positioned at recharging stations.
Deviation measured for the configuration coordinates when recharging took place.
No intruder obstacle or recharging request were considered during this experiment.
As currently the robot does not provide a sensor for battery charge reading, the recharging command was simulated by the user.
Once this is done, the robot navigates to this recharging station.
This device has a 6-in screen, weighs about 250 g and is able to allow 7500 display page-turns before the battery needs recharging.
