SBIR Phase I: Automated Guided Vehicle Wireless Charging Network

SBIR第一期：自动导引车无线充电网络

• 批准号: 2112226
• 负责人: Josh Yankowitz
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: YANK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2112226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Automated; Guided; Vehicle

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to increase the uptime of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and similar robotic systems to nearly one hundred percent at factories and fulfillment centers to further improve productivity and reduce overhead costs. These systems currently experience downtime when they need to be recharged off the assembly, production, or delivery route. The proposed technology develops a distributed wireless charging network that can charge AGVs and similar robotic systems dynamically or while they are in use.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will further the development of switching amplifiers to operate over wide reflected impedance ranges with high intrinsic quality antennas, and the developmet of receiver systems that handle dynamic power ranges. The project will also establish the first distributed network of wireless charging transmitters and nodes programmed and monitored collectively as a single functional unit to maintain the battery capacity of an AGV. The anticipated technical results of this Phase I project are to develop a distributed wireless charging network with multiple transmitters and nodes for AGVs along a test track such that it starts and ends with the same battery capacity after every full lap around the track, verifying the technical viability of the system in the marketplace.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是将工厂和履行中心的自动导引车 (AGV) 和类似机器人系统的正常运行时间增加到近 100%，以进一步提高生产力并降低管理成本。目前，这些系统在需要离开装配、生产或交付路线进行充电时会遇到停机情况。所提出的技术开发了一种分布式无线充电网络，可以动态地或在使用时为 AGV 和类似的机器人系统充电。这个小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目将进一步开发开关放大器，以在宽反射阻抗范围内使用高本质质量天线运行，并开发处理动态功率范围的接收器系统。该项目还将建立第一个由无线充电发射器和节点组成的分布式网络，作为单个功能单元进行编程和监控，以维持 AGV 的电池容量。该第一阶段项目的预期技术成果是开发一个分布式无线充电网络，该网络在测试轨道上为 AGV 配备多个发射器和节点，以便在轨道上的每一整圈后以相同的电池容量开始和结束，从而验证该系统在市场上的技术可行性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。