https://home.roboticlab.eu/ 2026-04-05T12:12:48+00:00 https://home.roboticlab.eu/ https://home.roboticlab.eu/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2021-07-28T09:00:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://home.roboticlab.eu/en/av/autonomy_and_autonomous_systems/technology/electric_motors?rev=1627462800&do=diff Electric motors This chapter provides a very basic overview of the operational principles of electric motors. The operation of an electric motor (machine) is based on the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction – the interaction of a conductor with an electric current and magnetic field. There are three fundamental concepts of implementation of an electric motor: text/html 2021-07-28T09:00:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://home.roboticlab.eu/en/av/autonomy_and_autonomous_systems/technology/intelligent_control?rev=1627462800&do=diff Intelligent control Control of a system is a set of actions needed to force changes in the system’s state according to the set objectives, goals to be met and mission to be accomplished. Intelligence is brought by methods borrowed from Artificial intelligence including machine vision, decision making, learning and other methods. One can look at intelligent control and control in general through answers to the following questions: text/html 2021-07-28T09:00:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://home.roboticlab.eu/en/av/autonomy_and_autonomous_systems/technology/power_sources?rev=1627462800&do=diff Power sources There are two main battery types: single-use - primary and rechargeable - secondary. Electric vehicles (EV) and most of the other autonomous systems use secondary batteries (except for small toy vehicles and special applications) hence in this chapter the term battery mean secondary battery unless noted otherwise. From an economic perspective, batteries are a serious business approaching a 100-billion-euro market size. About a third of all batteries are used as automotive traction… text/html 2021-07-28T09:00:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://home.roboticlab.eu/en/av/autonomy_and_autonomous_systems/technology/sensor_technology?rev=1627462800&do=diff Sensor technology Sensors are used for estimating the state of the autonomous system as well as its operating environment. As shown in the chapter on intelligent control depending on particular architecture sensor data processing might vary from architecture to architecture, but all of them implement the simple