Saturday, January 31, 2009

Solar Roller

My SURYA I presented at NEXUS-2009. I used zener diode solar engine circuit.
Machine Parts:
  • Zener Diode Solar engine circuit with 4700uF capacitor.
  • 5V/150mA Solar Panel (6.5cm x 7.5cm).
  • Plastic wheels from a toy car (Diameter = 2.5cm).
  • Small DC motor from Walkman (2V/120mA).
  • Body made by wire. (tough aluminium wire).
  • Front Wheel: I used a thin Black Pulley (It was not efficient).
Time taken by my bot to cover the track of length 1m :: 2 min 16 seconds.

The circuit Layout is :--





Some more stuff :-


Solar Roller is a beam-dragster robot that utilizes sunlight as a source of energy. Mostly in all solar competitions this being quite a popular event, wherein two solar bots are placed side by side on a track and they have to travel a distance of 1 meter in shortest time using light source coming from overhead high watt bulbs. So, let’s try and build a simple solar roller
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A Prototype


A SOLAR Engine Prototype

This is a Zener based SE. This design uses a Zener diode as means of determining the trigger voltage. The reverse bias operating voltage of the Zener is used as means of triggering point in the circuit. You can also use LED’s or diodes in series to accomplish the same trigger voltage.


Further readings:

http://www.solarbotics.com/assets/documentation/solarbotics_solarspeeder2_kit_may022007.pdf

http://library.solarbotics.net/apocrypha/pix/solaroller_mechanics.gif

http://library.solarbotics.net/apocrypha/pix/solaroller_circuits.gif

http://www.robotgames.net/RobotGames/Event_Rules/2002-BEAM-solaroller.html

http://www.beam-online.com/Robots/Galleria_other/solarollers.html




10 comments:

Keiv said...

is the prototype in the video clip a wall climbing robot?i wanna know more about it..did you post its 'how to do' on this blog?

heloitsadi said...

Yes the robot is a wall climbing robot, it was a good example of wall climber so published it, I have not worked on such kind of application so can't help you much, although will provide you with certain info on this if i managed to do so.

Cheers!!!

Anonymous said...

sir
i want to know abt the solar boat
.pls send me some idea n ckt for solar boat my id is gangesh_99@yahoo.com

heloitsadi said...

The links i have posted above are all sufficient for designing Solar Robot. Their is nothing special with me other then what is available on the net. Just google it, please post your comment under your name..!! if you don't mine..!!

akash said...

aditya,how solar energy converted into electrical?

heloitsadi said...

This article will help you akash.

http://robozeal.blogspot.com/2010/08/about-solar-power-learn-implement.html

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