TRAINABLE ROBOTIC APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20140330496A1
• Filed: 02/28/2014
• Published: 11/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Austin Crouse, Michael Balles
• Original Assignee: Austin Crouse, Michael Balles
• Inventors: Crouse, Austin, Balles, Michael
• Application Number:
  US14/193,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20140330496A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/70
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 34/008 for automated or remotely controlled operation
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0221 involving a learning process
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0274 using mapping information stored in a memory device navigation using map-matching G01C21/30
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0278 using satellite positioning signals, e.g. GPS

Abstract

An automated, robotic apparatus, system and method, such as a robotic lawnmower apparatus, system and method, and a control system for same. The present invention provides an automated, robotic apparatus, system and method for mowing lawns, and similar outdoor applications, in both residential and commercial applications, such as in order to provide preferred cut grass patterns across one or several different lawns with a single robotic unit.

Claims

1. A robotic control system, comprising:

a frame;

at least three wheels mounted to said frame, wherein at least one of the at least three wheels comprise drive wheels;

at least one drive motor for driving, and which is physically associated with, the at least one drive wheel;

a plurality of sensors associated with the at least one drive wheel;

at least one memory module for non-transitory storage of a plurality of first pass data; and

at least one microprocessor communicatively associated with the memory module and communicatively associated with at last said plurality of sensors, wherein the plurality of first pass data is read by said at least one microprocessor from said plurality of sensors on a first physical pass across a lawn under direction from a user and is stored by said at least one microprocessor in said memory module, and wherein the plurality of first pass data is read from said memory module by said at least one microprocessor and input by said at least one microprocessor to direct said plurality of sensors to produce autonomous action by at least the at least one drive wheel on a later physical pass across the lawn subsequent to the first pass.

2. A robotic control system, comprising:

a frame;

at least three wheels mounted to said frame, wherein at least one of the at least three wheels comprise drive wheels;

at least one drive motor for driving, and which is physically associated with, the at least one drive wheel;

a plurality of sensors associated with the at least one drive wheel;

at least one memory module for non-transitory storage of a plurality of first pass data;

at least one position sensor for recording an actual position of the robotic system; and

at least one microprocessor communicatively associated with the memory module and communicatively associated with at last said plurality of sensors, wherein the plurality of first pass data is read by said at least one microprocessor from said plurality of sensors on a first physical pass across a lawn under direction from a user and is stored by said at least one microprocessor in said memory module, and wherein the plurality of first pass data is read from said memory module by said at least one microprocessor and input by said at least one microprocessor to direct said plurality of sensors to produce autonomous action by at least the at least one drive wheel on a later physical pass across the lawn subsequent to the first pass.