Robotic Lawn Mowing Boundary Determination
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Abstract
A method of mowing an area with an autonomous mowing robot comprises storing, in non-transient memory of the robot, a set of geospatially referenced perimeter data corresponding to positions of the mowing robot as the mowing robot is guided about a perimeter of an area to be mowed, removing from the set of perimeter data one or more data points thereby creating a redacted data set and controlling the mowing robot to autonomously mow an area bounded by a boundary corresponding to the redacted data set, including altering direction of the mowing robot at or near a position corresponding to data in the redacted data set so as to redirect the robot back into the bounded area.
28 Citations
44 Claims
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1-26. -26. (canceled)
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27. A method of mowing an area with mowing robot, the method comprising:
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storing, in a memory of the mowing robot, a set of geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates corresponding to positions of the mowing robot while being guided about a perimeter of the area to be mowed along a teaching path during a teaching mode; identifying a boundary path comprising an alternative set of geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates comprising at least some of the set of the geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates stored during the teaching mode and at least some alternative coordinates other than the set of geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates stored during the teaching mode; and controlling the mowing robot to autonomously mow along the boundary path. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. An mowing robot comprising:
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a robot body carrying a grass cutter; a drive system including a motorized wheel supporting the robot body; a controller operably coupled to the motorized wheel for maneuvering the mowing robot to traverse a lawn area while cutting grass, the controller configured to; in a teaching mode, store in memory a set of geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates corresponding to positions of the mowing robot during a teaching mode; identify a boundary path comprising an alternative set of geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates comprising at least some of the set of the geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates stored during the teaching mode and at least some alternative coordinates other than the set of geospatially referenced perimeter coordinates stored during the teaching mode; and control the mowing robot to autonomously mow along the boundary path. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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