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In WRSNs, a mobile charging robot (MR) is responsible for wireless charging each sensor battery and collecting sensory data from the sensor simultaneously. Thereby, MR needs to traverse along a designed path for all sensors in the WRSNs. In this paper, dual-side charging strategies are proposed for MR traversal planning, which minimize the MR traversal path length, energy consumption, and completion time. Based on MR dual-side charging, neighboring sensors in both sides of a designated path can be wirelessly charged by MR and sensory data sent to MR simultaneously. The constructed path is based on the power diagram according to the remaining power of sensors and distances among sensors in a WRSN. While the power diagram is built, charging strategies with dual-side charging capability are determined accordingly. In addition, a clustering-based approach is proposed to improve minimizing MR moving total distance, saving charging energy and total completion time in a round. Moreover, integrated strategies that apply a clustering-based approach on the dual-side charging strategies are presented in WRSNs. The simulation results show that, no matter with or without clustering, the performances of proposed strategies outperform the baseline strategies in three respects, energy saving, total distance reduced, and completion time reduced for MR in WSRNs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22010359","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,9]],"date-time":"2022-01-09T23:08:26Z","timestamp":1641769706000},"page":"359","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Mobile Charging Strategy for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8194-0760","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tzung-Shi","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, Tainan 700301, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5453-3887","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jen-Jee","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City 300093, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Xiang-You","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, Tainan 700301, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Tzung-Cheng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Aerospace and Systems Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407802, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Feng, Y., Liu, N., Wang, F., Qian, Q., and Li, X. 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