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A Navigation Subsystem for an Autonomous Robot Lawn Mower

Hughes, Bradley Evan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1312391797

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2011, Master of Sciences (Engineering), Case Western Reserve University, EECS - Electrical Engineering.
This thesis describes a cost effective, accurate, and precise electronic navigation system which is suitable for outdoor commercial mobile robots. The hardware design of the system incorporates commercial off the shelf Global Positioning System receiver modules and support electronics. The software design of the system makes use of an open source positioning library to enable Real Time Kinematic satellite positioning. The designed navigation system has been integrated with a preexisting mobile robot platform, an autonomous robot lawn mower, which includes a set of reference sensors to provide accurate robot pose information. The reference platform is used to quantitatively evaluate the performance of the new cost effective system. A degradation factor of 1.7 in terms of positional accuracy is traded off in favor of achieving a cost savings factor of about thirty.
Roger Quinn, PhD (Advisor)
Roger Quinn, PhD (Committee Chair)
Marc Buchner, PhD (Committee Member)
Francis Merat, PhD (Committee Member)
75 p.
Computer Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Robotics; Robots
mobile robot; autonomous guided vehicle; global positioning system; navigation system; control system; robot lawn mower; consumer product automation; low cost navigation

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  • Hughes, B. E. (2011). A Navigation Subsystem for an Autonomous Robot Lawn Mower [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1312391797

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hughes, Bradley. A Navigation Subsystem for an Autonomous Robot Lawn Mower. 2011. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1312391797.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hughes, Bradley. "A Navigation Subsystem for an Autonomous Robot Lawn Mower." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1312391797

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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