emerging technologies increase the needs on self efficient mobile robotic applications that bring a new concern of sustainable and continuous power supply for the robotic platforms. this paper covers the various techniques and technologies used to design a solar powered robot, exploring the currently available products, software and limitations to this application. the main aim is to integrate ...

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Electric vehicle has attracted more and more attention all around the world in recent years because of its many advantages such as low pollution to the environment. However, due to the limitation of current technology, charging remains an important issue. In this paper, we study the problem of finding and making reservation on charging stations via a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). Our focus ...

The study follows a concept of “cooperative cover" and vehicle-refueling logics, using a mixed integer programming to formulate the recharging stations location model to meet user's demand with minimum cost. We will apply it to a reasonable program and analysis the difference of the new model compared with traditional ones.

The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) grows in rapid fashion in the transportation industry. However, limited battery capacity of EVs and the lack of charging facilities become challenges to obtain efficient route plans. In this paper, we propose a variant of electric vehicle routing problems considering the limited charging capacity at each station and the possibility of strategic partial re...

The electrification of public transport bus networks can be carried out utilizing different technological solutions, like trolley, battery or fuel cell buses. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how and to what extent existing bus networks can be electrified with fast charging battery buses. The so called opportunity chargers use mainly the regular dwell time at the stops to charge their ba...