SARA: A Robotic System For Cars Fuelling

The paper presents a robot prototype designed for the autonomous fuelling of vehicles, with attention on users safety and surrounding impact. The overall duty is analysed and proper suggestions are developed to organise the operation cycle in view of regulatory schemes, most likely, soon issued by Authorities for development sustainability rules. The manipulation architecture appears to be central requirement for the effectiveness of any feasible fixture and the main characteristics of the purposely selected solution are shortly summarised. For the related overseeing arrangement, the project moves from an analysis of prototypal fixtures, already built and tested in the USA and EU, and looks about opportunities in standardising subsets of vehicles devices to simplify the fuelling tasks.