Autonomous Mobile Robot
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Abstract
A robot lawnmower includes a robot body, a drive system, a localizing system, a teach monitor, and a controller in communication with one another. The drive system is configured to maneuver the robot lawnmower over a lawn. The teach monitor determines whether the robot lawnmower is in a teachable state. The controller includes a data processing device and non-transitory memory in communication with the data processing device. The data processing device executes a teach routine when the controller is in a teach mode for tracing a confinement perimeter around the lawn as a human operator pilots the robot lawn mower, when the robot lawnmower is in the teachable state, the teach routine stores global positions determined by the localizing system in the non-transitory memory, and when the robot lawnmower is in the unteachable state, the teach routine issues an indication of the unteachable state.
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40 Claims
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21. An operator feedback unit in communication with an autonomous robot lawnmower operable to mow a lawn, the operator feedback unit comprising:
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an operator input device manually operable to generate a signal indicative of a completion of a teaching routine of the autonomous robot lawnmower in which the autonomous robot lawnmower is piloted, by an operator, about a perimeter of the lawn, and positions of the perimeter of the lawn are determined to enable the autonomous robot lawnmower, in an autonomous mode, to autonomously navigate about the lawn relative to the determined positions of the perimeter of the lawn and cut the lawn; and a visual display configured to present a first visual indicator representing a geometry of the lawn based on the determined positions of the perimeter of the lawn. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A method of presenting visual signals indicative of operations of an autonomous robot lawnmower, the method comprising:
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generating a signal indicative of a completion of a teaching routine in which the autonomous robot lawnmower is piloted, by an operator, about a perimeter of a lawn, and positions of the perimeter of the lawn are determined to enable the autonomous robot lawnmower, in an autonomous mode, to autonomously navigate about the lawn relative to the determined positions of the perimeter of the lawn and cut the lawn; and presenting a first visual indicator representing a geometry of the lawn based on the determined positions of the perimeter of the lawn. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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