Before the introduction of positioning technologies in agriculture practices such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), data collection and management were time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks. Today, due to the introduction of advanced technologies, precise information on the performance of agricultural machines, and smaller autonomous vehicles such as robot mowers, can be collected in a relatively short time. The aim of this work was to track the performance of a robot mower in various turfgrass areas of an equal number of square meters but with four dierent shapes by using real-time kinematic (RTK)-GNSS devices, and to easily extract data by a custom built software capable of calculating the distance travelled by the robot mower, the forward speed, the cutting area, and the number of intersections of the trajectories. These data were then analyzed in order to provide useful functioning information for manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and practitioners. The path planning of the robot mower was random and the turfgrass area for each of the four shapes was 135 m2 without obstacles. The distance travelled by the robot mower, the mean forward speed, and the intersections of the trajectories were aected by the interaction between the time of cutting and the shape of the turfgrass. For all the dierent shapes, the whole turfgrass area was completely cut after two hours of mowing. The cutting eciency decreased by increasing the time, as a consequence of the increase in overlaps. After 75 minutes of cutting, the eciency was about 35% in all the turfgrass areas shapes, thus indicating a high level of overlapping.


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    Title :

    Assessment of the cutting performance of a robot mower using custom built software.


    Contributors:
    Martelloni, L (author) / Fontanelli, M (author) / Pieri, S (author) / Frasconi, C (author) / Caturegli, L (author) / Gaetani, M (author) / Grossi, N (author) / Magni, S (author) / Pirchio, M (author) / Raffaelli, M (author)

    Publication date :

    2019-01-01



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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