Lawn mowing is considered by many to be one of the most boring and tiring routine household tasks. It is also one of the most promising personal robot applications. Several devices have not been invented and some manufactured products are available for lawn mowing. The purpose of this paper is to survey the state of the art in robotic lawn mowers to highlight the requirements and capabilities of current devices. A brief survey of available robot products, typical patents and some test bed prototypes are presented. Some enabling technologies which could make the devices more capable are also suggested. Some predictions indicate that the robot lawn mower will be the breakthrough device in robotics. The significance of this research lies in the presentation of an overview of a potential major market for personal robots.


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    Title :

    Survey of robot lawn mowers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIX: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision ; 2000 ; Boston,MA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-10-11





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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