US 11,589,503 B2 · Robotic mowing of separated lawn areas

Abstract

A method of mowing multiple areas includes training a robotic mower to mow at least two areas separated by a space, including moving the robotic mower about the areas while storing data indicative of location of boundaries of each area relative to boundary markers, training the robotic mower to move across the space separating the areas, and initiating a mowing operation. Training the robotic mower to move across the space separating the areas includes moving the robotic mower to a traversal launch point of a first of the areas and moving the robotic mower to a traversal landing point of a second of the areas. The mowing operation causes the robotic mower to move to the traversal launch point, move from the traversal launch point across the space to the traversal landing point, and then mow the second of the areas.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

presenting, on a user interface of a user computing device in communication with an autonomous lawnmower robot configured to operate in an environment including two or more mowable areas, a map of the environment;
receiving, by the user computing device, a user input indicative of at least a portion of a boundary of a first mowable area of the two or more mowable areas;
presenting, on the user interface of the user computing device, a representation of the portion of the boundary of the first mowable area;
receiving, by the user computing device, a user input indicative of at least a portion of a boundary of a second mowable area of the two or more mowable areas, wherein the second mowable area is discontiguous with the first mowable area;
and
simultaneously presenting, on the user interface of the user computing device, a representation of the portion of the boundary of the first mowable area and the second mowable area.

3 more elements

A mobile computing device comprising:

a user interface;
a communication system configured to wirelessly communicate with an autonomous lawnmower robot configured to operate in an environment including two or more mowable areas;
a memory configured to store instructions;
and
a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:
presenting, on the user interface, a map of the environment;
receiving, by the user computing device, a user input indicative of at least a portion of a boundary of a first mowable area of the two or more mowable areas;
presenting, on the user interface of the user computing device, a representation of the portion of the boundary of the first mowable area;
receiving, by the user computing device, a user input indicative of at least a portion of a boundary of a second mowable area of the two or more mowable areas, wherein the second mowable area is discontiguous with the first mowable area;
and
simultaneously presenting, on the user interface of the user computing device, a representation of the portion of the boundary of the first mowable area and the second mowable area.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/067,009Filed 9 Oct 2020 · continuation

Priority

22 Dec 2014

Published

US 2021/0100161 A18 Apr 2021

Granted

28 Feb 2023

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

A01D 34/008
Control or measuring arrangements: for automated or remotely controlled operation
B25J 5/007
Manipulators mounted on wheels or on carriages: mounted on wheels
B25J 9/0081
Program-controlled manipulators: with leader teach-in means
B25J 9/1674
Program controls: characterised by safety, monitoring, diagnostic

Family

Application14/579,080Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Dec 2014

Application15/367,047Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Dec 2016

US 9,538,702 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Jan 2017

Application15/794,603Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Oct 2017

US 9,826,678 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Nov 2017

Application16/185,422Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Nov 2018

US 10,159,180 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Dec 2018

US 2021/0100161 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Apr 2021

US 10,874,045 B2Parent of this continuation

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Robotic mowing of separated lawn areas

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Abstract

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