Robotic lawnmower

[revoltage]

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to build an autonomous lawnmower and I'll be using PIC 16F877A.

Has anyone ever done this project before?

Thanks a lot for your response

[Kevin Berry]

Hi!

I'm not the guy to help you, but wanted to make sure you were welcomed onto the forum. I hope someone will post you help soon.

Kevin

[revoltage]

Thanks Kevin...ok i'll be waiting eagerly for all replies :)

[revoltage]

anyone please?

[revoltage]

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[revoltage]

It's hopeless :(

[Kevin Berry]

I sent you a private message

[franklin97355]

Lawnmower projects have been done. You can Google for many hits on the subject. I'm sure if you were to ask a specific question on the project you were building you would get answers but most readers don't respond to generic vague questions, sorry.

[D0n]

yeah a little more specific than "I want to build a flying machine".

I've got a few projects ranging from a wheelchair robot (others have used similar bots to move gas mowers), a hovercraft (with weed whacker attachment), to my personal favorite, a rolling rabbit cage, that uses the dog's radio fence and weighted counterbalancers to prevent the rabbit from rolling the ball cage out of the yard......

[Mark]

Shouldn't be too hard. Easier to convert an existing mower to battery pwr. Then "All" you need worry about to locomotion and "navigation".

Nav is as difficult or as easy as you want to make it. Fully autonomous, map building, path navigation? Or burry a track in the lawn for it to follow. Set it off on the start pos and wait for it to finish.

Main thing I'd say you need to worry about is safety. Ensure the blades are well encased and v difficulty to get it if it hits something shut down the blades until what ever it was has gone. Might not be too populate if it runs over the neighbours cat.


Mark

[revoltage]

I have already bought the majority of components:
Micro switches for making a bump sensor
sonar sensors
infrared sensors
a motor controller
parallax motor and wheel kit

I want to make the robot move inside a perimeter wire. Was thinking of implementing wavefront algorithm??