How to organize the recharging of the robot?

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Andrey Kaprov2014-06-01 21:22:00

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Andrey Kaprov, 2014-06-01 21:22:00

I want my robot to independently (with a partial discharge of the battery) drive up to a certain point and recharge. The task is divided into two:
1) Understand that the battery has sat down to a certain level.
2) Return to the base and lean the contacts where necessary.
With the first task, I think I can handle it. But if someone shares links on the topic, I will be grateful. Sealed lead accumulator.
I'm stuck with the second subtask. I can’t figure out how to make some kind of label that the robot will look for. On Habré, it seems, there was an article on this topic. But I can't find it. Google doesn't provide much information either. The whole search is filled with robotic vacuum cleaners that come back to recharge.
Please help with links to articles on this topic.

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Sergey, 2014-06-01
@begemot_sun

I think you're a little here,
and more precisely here . Maybe you can get ideas from the distant 80s :)

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GM2mars, 2014-06-02
@GM2mars

Somewhere I saw a robot whose task was to obtain energy for its own life and activity. It consisted of a sticky conveyor belt, a small motor, and a special container for collecting "energy". Insects stuck to the adhesive tape, which entered a special container, which of them received energy to run the motor)) Quite a funny thing.
Maybe you can make the robot get energy from organics, for example, devouring flowers and sleeping small pets)

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pelment, 2014-06-03
@pelment

You need some kind of navigation to get back to base. So that the robot generally understands where it is.
And if he has already found the room where his charger is, it can be found by a QR code or another clearly defined image. Write him a software to recognize them or embed a scanner (a barcode scanner recently cost us a little more than 10 thousand, but with it, it turns out, you can do so many interesting things - for example, configure). And by the "bend" of the rectangle containing the code, it becomes clear how to turn the robot in order to stand exactly in the place that will be connected to the contacts and park its butt back.