How do Vicor power modules address the challenges of battery-powered robotics conversion?

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How do Vicor power modules address the challenges of battery-powered robotics conversion? [Copy link]

Robots are already involved in almost everything around us to some degree. They are used in agricultural harvesting, warehouse handling, campus delivery, and consumer product delivery. These robots are battery powered, so power conversion efficiency and size/weight are very important. As the payload capacity, visual recognition, and user function requirements of robotic applications increase, the power conversion requirements become more and more challenging.

These flexible robots provide inventory management and order fulfillment tasks in large warehouse environments. They are typically powered by 24V to 72V batteries that can be recharged on demand. Vicor power modules are efficient and compact, supporting the conversion from 75V to usable voltages inside the robot, efficiently powering all mobility, navigation, computing, radio and lighting functions.

The first power stage architecture focuses on the high-performance buck-boost regulator PRM power module. The PRM can create a 24V to 48V intermediate bus with 96% to 98% efficiency to power the servo system and other downstream power modules, including fixed ratio NBM, ZVS buck regulator and ZVS buck-boost regulator. In addition, all modules can be connected in parallel to achieve higher power conversion.

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