Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/springer-journals/energetically-autonomous-robots-food-for-thought-3VfcBnExuX
References (29)
-
I. Ieropoulos, J. Greenman, C. Melhuish, J. Hart (2005)
Comparison of three different types of Microbial Fuel CellEnz. Microb. Technol., 37
-
S. Squyres, Gusev Crater (2004)
The Spirit Rover's Athena science investigation at Gusev Crater, Mars.Science, 305 5685
-
I. Ieropoulos, C. Melhuish, J. Greenman (2003)
Artificial Metabolism: Towards True Energetic Autonomy in Artificial Life -
J. Greenman, O. Holland, I. Kelly, K. Kendall, D. McFarland, C. Melhuish (2003)
Towards robot autonomy in the natural world: a robot in predator's clothingMechatronics, 13
-
K. Rabaey, N. Boon, S. Siciliano, M. Verhaege, W. Verstraete (2004)
Biofuel Cells Select for Microbial Consortia That Self-Mediate Electron TransferApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 70
-
Rod. O'Connor (1980)
Biological oxygen demandJournal of Chemical Education, 57
-
H. Bennetto (1990)
Electricity generation by microorganisms -
D. Kester, I. Duedall, D. Connors, R. Pytkowicz (1967)
PREPARATION OF ARTIFICIAL SEAWATER1Limnology and Oceanography, 12
-
M. Hernández, D. Newman (2001)
Extracellular electron transferCellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 58
-
H. U, R. D, E. N
Production of Electricity during Wastewater Treatment Using a Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell -
J. Todd (1984)
INVESTIGATIONSThe Lancet, 324
-
I. Ieropoulos, C. Melhuish, J. Greenman, I. Horsfield (2005)
EcoBot-II: An Artificial Agent with a Natural MetabolismInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2
-
F. Caccavo,, D. Lonergan, D. Lovley, M. Davis, J. Stolz, Michael McINERNEYl (1994)
Geobacter sulfurreducens sp. nov., a hydrogen- and acetate-oxidizing dissimilatory metal-reducing microorganismApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 60
-
W. Habermann, E. Pommer (1991)
Biological fuel cells with sulphide storage capacityApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 35
-
Kenneth Artis (1961)
Design for a BrainJAMA, 175
-
D. Bond, D. Holmes, L. Tender, D. Lovley (2002)
Electrode-Reducing Microorganisms That Harvest Energy from Marine SedimentsScience, 295
-
(1998)
Development of a Mediator-less Microbial Fuel Cell -
I. Ieropoulos, C. Melhuish, J. Greenman (2003)
Energetically Autonomous Robots -
I. Ieropoulos, J. Greenman, C. Melhuish, J. Hart (2005)
Comparative study of three types of microbial fuel cellEnzyme and Microbial Technology, 37
-
K. Sigfridsson (1998)
Plastocyanin, an electron-transfer proteinPhotosynthesis Research, 57
-
C. Melhuish, M. Kubo (2004)
Collective Energy Distribution: Maintaining the Energy Balance in Distributed Autonomous Robots using Trophallaxis -
D. Bond, D. Lovley (2003)
Electricity Production by Geobacter sulfurreducens Attached to ElectrodesApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 69
-
D. McFarland, E. Spier (1997)
Basic cycles, utility and opportunism in self-sufficient robotsRobotics Auton. Syst., 20
-
M. Kubo, C. Melhuish (2004)
Robot Trophallaxis : Managing Energy Autonomy in Multiple Robots -
I. Ieropoulos, J. Greenman, C. Melhuish (2003)
Imitating Metabolism: Energy Autonomy in Biologically Inspired Robots -
S. Wilkinson (2001)
Hungry for success – future directions in gastrobotics researchIndustrial Robot-an International Journal, 28
-
(1998)
Towards true autonomy -
B. C, E. N
Continuous Electricity Generation from Domestic Wastewater and Organic Substrates in a Flat Plate Microbial Fuel Cell -
I. Ieropoulos, J. Greenman, C. Melhuish, J. Hart (2005)
Energy accumulation and improved performance in microbial fuel cellsJournal of Power Sources, 145
- Publisher
- Springer Journals
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2006 by Springer Science + Business Media, LLC
- Subject
- Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
- ISSN
- 0929-5593
- eISSN
- 1573-7527
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10514-006-6574-5
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This paper reports on the robot EcoBot-II, which is designed to power itself solely by converting unrefined insect biomass into useful energy using on-board microbial fuel cells with oxygen cathodes. In bench experiments different ‘fuels’ (sugar, fruit and dead flies) were explored in the microbial fuel cell system and their efficiency of conversion to electricity is compared with the maximum available energy calculated from bomb calorimetry trials. In endurance tests EcoBot-II was able to run for 12 days while carrying out phototaxis, temperature sensing and radio transmission of sensed data approximately every 14 min.
Journal
Autonomous Robots – Springer Journals
Published: May 27, 2006