Hi Everyone.
This is my first foray into robotics and I am struggling finding information for what I would like to achieve. I suspect I simply don’t know the correct terms to search for, hence my post, as I’m sure this sort of thing has been done time and time again.
I hope to build a small tracked\wheeled autonomous lawn mower for a small (10m x20m) domestic garden.
I have designed and built my own CNC plasma table, 3D printers, various projects with Raspberry Pi’s and Arduino’s and have a better than average equipped workshop.
I’m just not able to find what is used for the mapping\location\navigation side of things.
Any ideas, keywords or links to similar projects would be greatly appreciated.
If this is in the wrong section please feel free to move to a more appropriate section.
@Danro Welcome to the RobotShop Community! The following series might be of some use, especially the section on sensors:
There’s also the general lawn mower project here:
raess created quite a nice lawn mower and goes through the process here:
Although not integrated into that project, he had also worked on a lidar system:
If you want to do 2D mapping, you’re likely looking at a 360 degree distance sensor, which can be found here: https://www.robotshop.com/en/lidar.html
Note that some models are better in sunlight than others.
You should still include some basic distance sensors (ultrasonic or infrared) since you’re creating something with a spinning blade, and any contact with, well, anything that it should not come into contact with won’t end well.
