Design and realization of visual wireless autonomous lawn mower based on machine vision

Author

Hengtao Liu ; Zhugang Yuan ; Zhe Su

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Jinan, Jinan, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

353

Lastpage

358

Abstract

In order to solve the problem of the traditional intelligent mower, which cannot cover the lawn area and operate complexly, a visual, wireless, autonomous mower system via machine vision is designed. Firstly, collect the image information of locale dynamically by the real-time camera which erected on the high bracket, and display on the monitor of PC, then draw a few mowing range or mowing patterns of mower by mouse in the host computer software. Secondly, the host computer software analysis the data. Finally, convey the action signal to the actions required lawn mower to finish the mowing task. The experimental results show a high level of automation from the proposed lawn proposed lawn mower system, which has the function of avoiding obstacle automatically and covering the target lawn area completely.

Keywords

Zigbee; cameras; collision avoidance; control engineering computing; data analysis; horticulture; intelligent control; lawnmowers; mobile robots; robot vision; Zigbee wireless communication system; action signal; data analysis; host computer software; image information; intelligent mower; lawn area; machine vision; mowing patterns; mowing range; mowing task; obstacle avoidance; real-time camera; visual wireless autonomous lawn mower system; Algorithms; Cameras; Computers; Hardware; Power supplies; Software; Wireless communication; Intelligent lawn mower; automation; covering whole mowing range; image processing; machine vision;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wavelet Active Media Technology and Information Processing (ICCWAMTIP), 2014 11th International Computer Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7207-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCWAMTIP.2014.7073425

Filename

7073425