Hi Robot Everest,
hi Iterate.

Hello Robot Everest and Iterate - My name is Chloe, I am an Engineer in Physics from Montreal, Canada. I currently work as a Robotic Simulation Engineer in Mountain View, California, where our mission is to deploy robots in AI factories and servers manufacturing sites. I lived three years in Paris, France, where I would work at a Cloud Service Provider and commute regularly to the Alps to attend ultra races. I ran a 75km race with 3000m elevation to the Glacier of the Vanoise, and another 30 miles race with 3500m of elevation near Chamonix where we would also run on ice and snow. I recently moved to California to be closer to the mountain on a daily basis. When I was 19 years old, I also did a 6 months bicycle trip in India that brought me to the foothill of the Himalayas. During my recent career in Robotic, I have also been interested in robots deployment in harsh environments, related to datacenters in orbits.

• emailchloe.pilonv@gmail.com
• linkedinchloe-pilonvaillancourt
• githubchloepilonv

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Idea : Battery Lifecycle Management Tool

Context

On its latest excursion, battery lifecycle of the robot Pemba José Lani seems to have been a major concern (Source), and it is listed as a primary measurement objective for the proposed Everest expedition. At low temperature, lithium cells develop higher internal resistance: voltage sags under load, the BMS cuts out early, and usable capacity drops while chemical energy remains in the pack. Thermal regulation is therefore a capacity problem, not only a survival one. It should be possible to estimate remaining battery life and required thermal regulation by computing mechanical demand (joint torques) and coupling it to pack temperature and its effect on internal resistance.

Goal

Develop a battery lifecycle management system, validated within a digital twin of the mountain traverse to predict Pemba José Lani's remaining usable capacity, to support real-life deployment decisions.

How

• Reproduce the harsh environment in Isaac Sim / Omniverse: static and dynamic friction of iced ground, external wind forces.
• Import the G1 USD (IMU, sensors included) with a pretrained locomotion policy.
• Monitor joint torques and velocities along the traverse.
• Model temperature, altitude and pressure effects on internal resistance to compute required thermal regulation.
• Transmit monitored values through a script capped at 340 bytes per packet (simulating a satellite link), displayed on a Grafana dashboard.

Track · Hardware resilience at altitude · Satellite communication

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