LAWN MOWER ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20130212994A1
• Filed: 08/23/2012
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Geunbae, Woo, Jongjin, Nam, Dongkyun
• Application Number:
  US13/592,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20130212994A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 56/10.2A
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 34/008 for automated or remotely controlled operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 901/01 Mobile robot

Abstract

The present embodiment relates to a lawn mower robot. The lawn mower robot includes a body disposed with a moving device; a mowing device disposed in the bottom of the body and mowing lawns; a sensor disposed in the body and outputting data by sensing colors; and a controller determining a lawn presence region based on data output from the sensor.

Claims

1. A lawn mower robot, comprising:

a body disposed with a moving device;

a mowing device disposed at the bottom of the body and mowing lawns;

a sensor disposed at the body and outputting data by sensing colors; and

a controller that determines a lawn presence region based on data output from the sensor.

2. The lawn mower robot according to claim 1, wherein the sensor senses the colors of objects positioned under the body.

3. The lawn mower robot according to claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a RGB sensor.

4. The lawn mower robot according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is a spectrum sensor for sensing spectrum of green lawns.

5. The lawn mower robot according to claim 1, further comprising a memory for storing reference values for green data,

wherein the controller compares the reference values stored in the memory with the green data output from the sensor to determine a boundary area for determining the lawn presence region.

6. The lawn mower robot according to claim 5, wherein the boundary area determined by the controller is stored into the memory.

7. The lawn mower robot according to claim 6, wherein when the controller determines that the body returns the boundary area initially sensed among the boundary areas stored into the memory, it determines the lawn presence region based on the boundary area stored into the memory, and controls the moving device and the mowing device to perform mowing in the determined lawn presence region.

8. The lawn mower robot according to claim 5, wherein on determining the boundary area, the controller drives the mowing device to mow the lawns in the boundary area.

9. A method of controlling a lawn mower robot, comprising:

determining a boundary area for determining a lawn presence region based on color information sensed from a sensor on moving the lawn mower robot;

determining the lawn presence region based on the determined boundary area when being determined that the lawn mower robot reaches the boundary area to be initially determined on moving the lawn mower robot; and

mowing lawns while moving the lawn mower robot in the determined lawn presence region.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising, when the boundary area is determined, mowing the lawns in the determined boundary area by driving a mowing device.