Infra Red Assisted Navigation for Automatic Lawn Mower Robot

The mobile robotics industries moving forward with innovative approach to solve the humanitarian problems. In this work, the scope is limited to cleaning backyard and front yard landscaping; the maintenance of these premises are mundane tasks which takes up lot of human effort and consumes time. Tasks like mow grass and dusting off the dead leaf’s using gardening robot for lawns and play grounds could be given to robot for effective maintenance. In this work a cost-effective method of navigation and boundary defining of the lawn/play ground is attempted. A set of defined mowing operation is coded in the robot for path planning and boundary defining of the target. Robot docking station is done using same boundary wire technique for charging the battery and resuming the work as required. The lawn mower estimate distance moved using ground speed sensor