Prototype on retrofittable autonomous lawn mower for golf resort

Kaito Ichihara, Tadahiro Hasegawa, Shin'Ichi Yuta, Tomoyuki Kato, Kentaro Nimura, Motoyuki Shiraishi

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Abstract

The prototype of the autonomous lawn mower with a retrofittable driving control system was developed successfully. This retrofittable driving control system enabled to make an existing lawn mower autonomous, only by mounting sensors and actuators on it. It is widely known that lawn mowers with hydraulic mechanisms have hydraulic drive-derived problems such as operation delays of the hydraulic drive system and fluctuations in the reference position of the steering wheel rotation angle. Therefore, the autonomous driving control system solved these hydraulic drive-derived problems by, for example, estimating the reference position of the steering wheel rotation angle from the driving motions of the lawn mower. Furthermore, our autonomous driving control system can replicate the mowing work done by green-keepers with an autonomous lawn mower, by creating way points based on trajectory that an experienced green-keeper mowed the lawn on the fairway. The experimental results on the golf course showed the practical feasibility of the autonomous lawn mower with a retrofittable driving control system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 22nd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2022
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages509-511
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9788993215243
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event22nd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2022 - Busan, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2022 Nov 272022 Dec 1

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Control, Automation and Systems
Volume2022-November
ISSN (Print)1598-7833

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2022
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityBusan
Period22/11/2722/12/1

Keywords

  • Autonomous lawn mower
  • Golf course
  • Retrofittable driving control system

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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