Autonomous Lawn Care Applications

A Tele-Autonomous Heavy Duty Robotic Lawn Mower

This paper describes the development of a robotic heavy duty lawn mower provided with a rich set of sensors which initially provide tele-operation mode capabilities but will support extension towards full autonomy via an intermediate mode termed teleautonomous to reflect a multilevel control structure which permits graceful withdrawal of human guidance as the development proceeds.

Autonomous Agent Navigation Based on Textural Analysis

Navigating an autonomous agent outdoors can be a challenging task. As a basis for this research, the autonomous agent in question is that of an autonomous robotic lawnmower. Mowing a lawn can be a difficult, tedious, and sometimes hazardous chore for the human operator. The goal of this paper is to report on ongoing research of using the visual property of texture to design a system which gives...

Texture Analysis: A Technique for Autonomous Lawnmower Navigation

Mowing a lawn can be a difficult and tedious chore. The goal of this paper is to introduce the idea of using the visual property of texture to design an autonomous lawnmower robot that mows a lawn similar to how a human would (in some type of pattern.) Previous autonomous lawnmowers that have been designed, the LawnNibbler and LawnShark for example, rely on the principle of randomness to mow in...

TrimBot2020: an outdoor robot for automatic gardening

Robots are increasingly present in modern industry and also in everyday life. Their applications range from health-related situations, for assistance to elderly people or in surgical operations, to automatic and driver-less vehicles (on wheels or flying) or for driving assistance. Recently, an interest towards robotics applied in agriculture and gardening has arisen, with applications to automa...

Robotic Rock Classification and Autonomous Exploration