Co-Management of Computational and Mechanical Energy in Mobile Robots Using Reinforcement Learning




Naseri, Afrooz; Shahsavari, Sajad; Plosila, Juha; Haghbayan, Hashem

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European Control Conference

2025

European Control Conference

2025 European Control Conference (ECC)

23

691

696

979-8-3315-0271-3

978-3-907144-12-1

2996-8917

2996-8895

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.23919/ECC65951.2025.11187299

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11187299



Optimizing energy consumption is a critical challenge in autonomous mobile robotics, essential for extending battery life. Mechanical and computational components are the primary energy consumers, and studies show that dynamically co-managing their power usage—such as adjusting processing frequency relative to mechanical speed—significantly improves efficiency. This improvement is primarily due to the relationship between decision-making processes based on mechanical speed and computational workload. In this paper, we propose an agile reinforcement learning algorithm for dynamic co-management, tested on a rover equipped with a brushless motor, a Jetson TX2 processor, and an event-based camera. Our approach effectively addresses scalability and accuracy issues in prior methods, achieving energy efficiency improvements between 16.98% and 60.86% compared to the most efficient existing techniques.



This work was supported by the research Council of Finland -funded project 357220 - DOMINIC (Developmental Multi-Robot Systems in Cognitive Manufacturing)


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