Optimal planner for lawn mowers

The task of planning trajectories for mobile robots has received considerable attention in the research literature. However, rare research addresses the issue relate to lawn mower designs. An optimal and efficient path planner for lawn mowers is proposed here. There are two issues concerned in the design of the planner: (i) low working time or energy consumption, and (ii) human safety. The optimal mowing path for time or energy consumption with safety concern is achieved via combining these factors in the mowing path planning. Experimental results show that the proposed approach yields excellent performance with a variety of scenarios.