Smart lawnmower with development of mowing policy and system and method for use of same

A smart lawnmower comprising:

• a housing including an inertial measurement unit, a sensor, a processor and memory therein communicatively interconnected in a busing architecture;
• a cutting subsystem secured to the housing, the cutting subsystem communicatively interconnected to the busing architecture, the cutting subsystem configured to cut lawn;
• a drive subsystem secured to the housing, the drive subsystem communicatively interconnected to the busing architecture, the drive subsystem configured for locomotion and steering of the smart lawnmower;
• an antenna secured to the housing and communicatively interconnected to the busing architecture, the antenna having a known spaced relationship to the cutting subsystem;
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• the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
• in a real-to-sim training phase, construct a simulated environment corresponding to a mowing-relevant portion of a real-world environment relative to semantic information, the semantic information being information that the smart lawnmower has about the real-world environment via at least one of the inertial measurement unit, the sensor, user input, and location signalization received at the antenna;
• in a sim-to-real mowing phase, apply a mowing policy to control the cutting subsystem and the drive subsystem in response to the semantic information;
• render the simulated environment including simulated representations of physical objects in the real-world environment;
• place the smart lawnmower at a location in the simulated environment and signal the drive subsystem based on the location of the cutting subsystem in the simulated environment;
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• record a boundary as the drive subsystem undertakes locomotion and steering of the smart lawnmower, and update the simulated environment with obstructions detected by the sensor.

A smart lawnmower comprising:

• a housing including an inertial measurement unit, a sensor, a processor and memory therein communicatively interconnected in a busing architecture;
• cutting subsystem secured to the housing, the cutting subsystem communicatively interconnected to the busing architecture, the cutting subsystem configured to cut lawn;
• a drive subsystem secured to the housing, the drive subsystem communicatively interconnected to the busing architecture, the drive subsystem configured for locomotion and steering of the smart lawnmower;
• an antenna secured to the housing and communicatively interconnected to the busing architecture, the antenna having a known spaced relationship to the cutting subsystem;
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• the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
• in a real-to-sim training phase, construct a simulated environment corresponding to a mowing-relevant portion of a real-world environment relative to semantic information, the semantic information being information that the smart lawnmower has about the real-world environment via at least one of the inertial measurement unit, the sensor, user input, and location signalization received at the antenna;
• in a sim-to-real mowing phase, apply a mowing policy to control the cutting subsystem and the drive subsystem in response to the semantic information;
• in each of the real-to-sim training phase and the sim-to-real mowing phase, provide a user interface including the simulated environment;
• render the simulated environment including simulated representations of physical objects in the real-world environment;
• place the smart lawnmower at a location in the simulated environment and signal the drive subsystem based on the location of the cutting subsystem in the simulated environment;
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• record a boundary as the drive subsystem undertakes locomotion and steering of the smart lawnmower, and update the simulated environment with obstructions detected by the sensor.