139 results about "Robotic lawn mower" patented technology

A method of operating a mowing system, the method including mowing within a work area, wherein mowing is performed by a robotic lawn mower, and wherein the work area comprises a plurality of base stations each configured to charge the robotic lawn mower; determining when to charge the robotic lawn mower in view of a current charge level and a current location of the robotic lawn mower.

Techniques and architectures for manually controlling a lawn mower while a user is positioned on or within proximity to the lawn mower are discussed herein. For example, the lawn mower can include a control interface having a handle that the user grips with one or more fingers and a control attached to the handle to receive input from one or more other fingers of the user. The control can include a lever or other element with opposing tabs configured to receive input from fingers of the user.

The present disclosure relates to a robotic lawn mower (100) having a body (140), at least two drive wheels (130a, 130b), a grass cutting mechanism (160), at least two electric motor arrangements (150, 165) and a control unit (110) adapted to control the operation of the robotic lawn mower (100). The said drive wheels (130a, 130b) are drivably connected to a first electric motor arrangement (150) and the cutting mechanism (160) is drivably connected to a second electric motor arrangement (165). The control unit (110) is configured to generate a cleaning request signal and generate a drive signal for actuating said drive wheels (130a, 130b) so as to guide said lawn mower (100) to an external cleaning station (230). Also, the control unit (110) is further configured to generate a movement signal for actuating said drive wheels (130a, 130b) to cause a relative movement of said lawn mower (100) in relation to said cleaning station (230) while allowing cleaning of at least a part of the underside of said lawn mower (100).

The invention relates to a handheld remote controller of an automatic mower, belongs to the technical field of automatic mowers, and solves the problem that an automatic leather cutting machine is inconvenient to control in the prior art. The handheld remote controller comprises a metal shell, a display module and a rocker key input module are arranged on the metal shell, and a control communication module is arranged in the metal shell; the rocker key input module is used for receiving a control instruction of a user to the automatic mower and transmitting the control instruction to the control communication module; the control communication module is used for sending the control instruction to the automatic mower, and the automatic mower moves under the control of the control instruction; the receiving module is used for receiving real-time state information when the automatic mower moves; and the display module is used for receiving the real-time state information from the control communication module and displaying the real-time state information. And real-time control of the automatic mower is realized.

Provided is an autonomous lawn mowing system having improved safety. An autonomous lawn mowing system 1 is provided with: a position-information acquisition unit 14 that acquires position information concerning the position of an autonomous lawn mower 2 that is capable of travelling by itself; a moisture-information acquisition unit 15 that acquires moisture information concerning the moisture content of turf; a wet-ground identification unit 31 that identifies a wet region on the basis of the position information and the moisture information; and a control module 34 that controls the autonomous lawn mower 2 on the basis of the result identified by the wet-ground identification unit 31.

An autonomous lawn mower is described. The autonomous lawn mower comprises a chassis supporting a podium that is raked forward with respect to a horizontal plane. In some examples, the podium comprises a top portion that may support one or more sensors, antennas and / or cameras that may be used to provide environmental information regarding the surroundings of the autonomous lawn mower. In additional or alternative examples, the podium may facilitate communication services to and / or from the autonomous lawn mower. Such a podium may improve the operation of the mower by a user when manually (or semi-autonomously controlled) while optimizing a field of view of such sensors with respect to the mowable area.

The present disclosure relates to a robotic lawn mower that is adapted to operate within an operation area defined by a boundary and comprises a mower control unit adapted to control the operation of the robotic lawn mower. The mower control unit is adapted to receive data defining at least one boundary part, comprised in the boundary, where the mower control unit is adapted to control the robotic lawn mower to perform boundary cutting along said boundary part, and to perform normal cutting along the rest of the boundary. The boundary cutting is a procedure adapted to enable cutting over the boundary in a pre-defined manner.

The invention discloses a full-automatic mower, and relates to the technical field of mowers. The full-automatic mower comprises a vehicle body, supports are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the front and back of the end face of the vehicle body, a segmented mowing part used for conducting segmented cutting and smashing according to the height of grass is jointly arranged on the two supports, a mowing unit comprises a C-shaped mounting frame fixedly connected between two front and back adjacent sliding columns, and a grass smashing assembly is arranged in the mounting frame; according to the invention, the distance between the mowing units is flexibly adjusted according to the height of the grass, and the upper half section and the lower half section of the tall grass are sequentially harvested by adopting the ladder-shaped up-down staggered arrangement, so that the phenomenon that the tall grass is pressed down and missed in mowing is avoided, the mowing efficiency is improved, and the mowing efficiency is improved. And the cut grass clippings are subjected to secondary refining and crushing through uniform distribution and discharge and are uniformly discharged and spread, so that the grass clippings are shorter and are uniformly distributed, and the fine crushing and field returning effects are greatly improved.

Techniques are directed to controlling a mower. Such techniques involve initiating an automated mowing task that directs the mower to operate in a geographic area defined by a virtual boundary. Such techniques further involve electronically detecting presence of a device within the geographic area defined by the virtual boundary. Such techniques further involve suspending the automated mowing task in response to detecting the presence of the device within the geographic area defined by the virtual boundary.

A robotic lawn mower (100) includes a traction motor system (114) and a blade motor system (116) that, respectively, drives wheels (110) and drives a blade (108) of the robotic lawn mower (100). The robotic lawn mower also includes processing circuitry (102) for receiving user inputs that indicate a boundary (432), a mow pattern (1210), and / or a pre-planned path for a location (400). The processing circuitry (102) may control the traction motor system (114) and the blade motor system (116), in accordance with the user input, such that the robotic lawn mower (100) mows a lawn (430) at the location (400) based on the boundary (432), the mow pattern (1210), and / or the pre-planned path. The processing circuitry (102) may also detect an obstacle (820) in the lawn (430) based on the data generated by sensors (810) and operate the robotic lawn mower (100) to avoid the obstacle (820) and continue to mow the lawn based on the boundary (432), mow pattern (1210), and / or pre-planned path.WO

The automatic mower comprises a base, an upper adjusting ring is rotatably arranged on the base, a fixing ring is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the base, a lower adjusting ring is slidably arranged in the fixing ring in an up-down limiting mode, a cutting assembly is arranged in the lower adjusting ring, and the upper adjusting ring is in transmission fit with the lower adjusting ring; a wedge-shaped block is arranged on the surface of the upper adjusting ring, a knocking assembly is arranged on the base, and the knocking assembly is in transmission fit with the wedge-shaped block; the knocking assembly comprises a sliding rod, a through hole is formed in the base, the sliding rod is arranged in the through hole in a limited sliding mode, and a first spring is fixedly arranged in the through hole; one end of the first spring is fixedly connected with the base, and the other end is fixedly connected with the sliding rod; a rolling ball is fixedly arranged at the top of the sliding rod and is in contact transmission fit with the wedge-shaped block, and a knocking hammer is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the sliding rod and is in knocking fit with the lower adjusting ring. In the process of adjusting the height of the cutting assembly by rotating the upper adjusting ring, the knocking assembly can automatically knock the lower adjusting ring.

A robotic lawn mower parking garage includes a lid part having a longitudinal extension running between a first and second end, and two opposing wall parts extending between a bottom plane and the lid part. The lid part and the wall parts include two pairs of a closed hinge slot and a respective hinge pin, where, for each pair, the hinge pin moves and pivots in the respective hinge slot, between a first and second slot end, when the lid part is moved relative the wall parts, around a pivot axis. The lid part and the wall parts include locking means adapted to be released from a locking position, where the lid part is prevented from pivoting around the pivot axis, to an open position, where the lid part pivots around the pivot axis when the hinge pins bear on a second end of the respective hinge slot, opposite the first end.

Charging stations for robotic lawn mowers (part of-)

A robotic lawn mower interaction station may be adapted to receive an oncoming robotic lawn mower. The interaction station includes a charging tower with a charging transmission arrangement that is adapted to provide a charge current, delivered from a station charging unit, to a charging reception arrangement of a docked robotic lawn mower. The interaction station includes a reception ground plate that extends from the charging tower towards a frontmost part, included in an entering edge. The ground plate is constituted by a plate part and one ridge part that extends a certain ridge height from the plate part.

A mowing system including a base station disposed at a work area; and a plurality of robotic lawn mowers disposed at the work area, the plurality of robotic lawn mowers including a first robotic lawn mower and a second robotic lawn mower, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with the second robotic lawn mower through the first robotic lawn mower.

Charging stations for Robotic lawn mowers

An out-of-bounds prevention control method for a robotic lawn mower. The method comprises: equipping a robotic lawn mower with a sensor assembly to perform boundary line and obstacle detection, wherein the sensor assembly is composed of a boundary line sensor and an obstacle sensor (S1); implementing sub-region division, performing boundary segmentation and operating node setting on sub-regions, accurately measuring operating node coordinates, and constructing quadrilateral cells (S2); on the basis of terrain and obstacle conditions, adjusting the specifications of all the quadrilateral cells, so as to obtain minimized local meshes (S3); using a formula to perform quality optimization on the minimized local meshes, so as to acquire a target region (S4); and on the basis of the target region, analyzing a travelling path of the robotic lawn mower, so as to acquire an abnormal signal, and taking into account the abnormal signal, further determining whether the robotic lawn mower is out of bounds (S5).

The utility model relates to mowing equipment and an automatic mowing machine, and aims to solve the problem that a shell of the mowing equipment in the prior art is easy to damage due to collision. The mowing equipment comprises a main body frame and a comb, wherein the main body frame is used for bearing at least one of a cutterhead assembly, a cutterhead lifting assembly and a supporting wheel assembly; the comb is located at the front end of the mowing device and installed below the main body frame. The tooth comb is arranged on the main body frame of the mowing equipment, the design that the tooth comb is arranged on a shell of the mowing equipment in the prior art is replaced, the tooth comb transmits force borne by collision to the main body frame when collision occurs, and the main body frame replaces the shell which is prone to being damaged to bear the collision force from the tooth comb. The appearance of the mowing equipment can be maintained to be complete, frequent replacement of the shell and components on the shell is avoided, and therefore the labor cost and the maintenance cost are reduced.

The embodiment of the application provides a mowing control method and an automatic mower. The method obtains load information of a cutting motor of the automatic mower, judges whether the load information satisfies a first preset condition, reduces a driving speed of the automatic mower if yes, then continues to judge whether the load information satisfies the first preset condition, and raises a height of a cutting piece driven by the cutting motor until the load information does not satisfy the first preset condition. In this way, the risk of excessive load of the cutting motor is effectively reduced, and the cutting integrity and neatness of a lawn with high cutting difficulty are improved.

The invention provides a mowing robot and a charging station thereof. The mowing robot comprises a battery pack; the charging electrode is used for being in butt joint with a charging device of a charging station so as to form a charging circuit for charging the battery pack; the robot control device is used for controlling the mowing robot to work; the robot control device is further used for generating a control signal according to the time information of the mowing robot; and transmitting the control signal to the charging station through the charging circuit so as to update the time information of the charging station. Starting delay of the lighting device of the charging station caused by time deviation can be reduced, and the situation that the mowing robot cannot return to the charging station due to insufficient light is avoided. Moreover, the mowing robot transmits the control signal based on the time information by using the existing charging circuit, and an additional communication module is saved, so that the system design is simplified, and the cost is reduced.

1. The name of the design product: automatic mowing robot. 2. The use of the design product: for mowing. 3. The design points of the design product: in shape. 4. The picture or photo that best shows the design points: perspective view 1.

Methods and systems are provided for controlling automatic travel of a power machine, particularly a mower. A set of points associated with a geographical area can be used to define a work path for a work task associated with the geographical area. The power machine can be controlled to perform the work task by traveling along the work path.

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an abnormal area marking method and a related apparatus. The method includes: when a predicament is detected during an operation process, determining an area of a current position as an abnormal area; obtaining a sensing data set within a specified time period during the operation process, where the sensing data set is a set of data acquired by a sensor, and the specified time period represents a safe traveling time period before the robotic lawn mower gets into the predicament; determining abnormality description information of the abnormal area based on the sensing data set; and determining a target position corresponding to the abnormal area on an operation map, and establishing an association relationship between the target position and the abnormality description information.

The utility model discloses an automatic mowing machine which comprises a machine body, a moving assembly, a cutting driving part and a cutting mechanism, the moving assembly comprises a first driving wheel and a second driving wheel which are oppositely installed on the two sides of the bottom of the machine body and drive the automatic mowing machine to move, and the outer side of the first driving wheel and / or the outer side of the second driving wheel are basically flush with the side edge of the machine body; the cutting driving part is mounted on the machine body; the cutting mechanism is installed below the machine body and driven by a cutting driving piece to execute mowing work. The maximum span of the cutting track of the cutting mechanism in the transverse direction is larger than the distance from the inner side of the first driving wheel to the inner side of the second driving wheel, and the distance between the cutting assembly and the edge of the side face of the machine body can be shortened by arranging the moving assembly to be basically flush with the machine body. The width of the cutting track of the cutting assembly is set to be larger than the distance between the opposite sides of the moving assembly, the distance between the cutting assembly and the edge of the side face of the machine body can be further shortened, and it can be guaranteed that grass leakage is avoided when the automatic mower conducts cutting in the two directions.

Outdoor power equipment includes a battery pack, a receptacle configured to receive the battery pack, a wheel motor, a chore motor, a gyroscopic sensor configured to detect an orientation of the outdoor power equipment, a location sensor configured to detect a location of the outdoor power equipment, and a controller in communication with the wheel motor, the chore motor, the gyroscopic sensor, and the location sensor. The controller is configured to provide additional power from the battery pack to the wheel motor based on (a) detection of a deviation by the outdoor power equipment from a desired path to maintain the outdoor power equipment on the desired path based on the location of the outdoor power equipment as determined by the location sensor, or (b) detection of the orientation exceeding a predetermined threshold value.

Figure 1.1 is a perspective view of the lawnmower robot showing our new design. Figure 1.2 is its front view. Figure 1.3 is its back view. Figure 1.4 is its left side view. Figure 1.5 is its right side view. Figure 1.6 is its top view. Figure 1.7 is its bottom view. 1.1) Perspective view; 1.2) Front view; 1.3) Back view; 1.4) Left side view; 1.5) Right side view; 1.6) Top view; 1.7) Bottom view

An outdoor power equipment system includes a removable rechargeable battery module, a robotic lawn mower, and a portable power equipment. The robotic lawn mower includes a receptacle configured to receive the battery module, and an electric motor electrically coupled to the receptacle to receive electricity to drive at least one of a wheel and a cutting implement. The portable power equipment includes a receptacle configured to receive the battery module, and at least one of an electric motor, a light source, and an amplification circuit coupled to the receptacle to receive electricity.

The application relates to a control method of an automatic mower, which comprises the following steps: a, controlling the automatic mower to move along a first path with a first advancing direction, and the automatic mower generates two first imprints on the lawn; b, controlling the automatic mower to move along a second path with a second advancing direction, the second path is offset from the first path by a path offset B, and the automatic mower generates two second imprints on the lawn; c, controlling the automatic mower to move along a third path with the first advancing direction, the third path is offset from the second path by the path offset B, and the automatic mower generates two first imprints on the lawn; and d, controlling the automatic mower to move along a fourth path with the second advancing direction, the fourth path is offset from the third path by the path offset B, and the automatic mower generates two second imprints on the lawn.