What challenges do you face in powering handling and harvesting robots? Let’s talk with Vicor engineers!

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What challenges do you face in powering handling and harvesting robots? Let’s talk with Vicor engineers! [Copy link]

Robots are already involved in almost everything around us to some degree. In agricultural harvesting, a variety of produce including strawberries, apples, and lettuce are being planted, maintained, and harvested using autonomous vehicle navigation and vision recognition robots. Large robotic vehicles or equipment are typically powered by high voltage DC power supplies of 400V or more. Robots are used in warehouse handling, campus distribution, and consumer product distribution. These robots are battery powered, so power conversion efficiency and size/weight are very important. As the payload capacity, vision recognition, and user function requirements of robotic applications increase further, the power conversion requirements become more challenging.

Vicor power modules enable component-based power delivery networks to power motor drives as well as demanding CPUs. Each power module is optimized for high efficiency, high density, and overall performance. Vicor modules are also lightweight compared to competing solutions, further improving the performance of battery-powered robotic devices. These power modules can also be paralleled, allowing the design to easily scale with power as the robot's power needs increase, and also allowing the same power architecture to be deployed in a variety of different sized robotic system platforms.

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