System-Level Development of a User-Integrated Semi-Autonomous Lawn Mowing System: Problem Overview, Basic Requirements, and Proposed Architecture
This incremental work addresses the problem of developing semi-autonomous lawn mowing systems for home users, targeting the robotics and systems engineering communities.
The paper outlines the design and development of user-integrated semi-autonomous lawn mowing systems from a systems engineering perspective, providing a review, problem discussion, general architecture, and preliminary requirements to establish a baseline for future work.
This concept paper outlines some recent efforts toward the design and development of user-integrated semi-autonomous home-sized lawn mowing systems from a systems engineering perspective. This is an important and emerging field of study within the robotics and systems engineering communities. The work presented includes a review of current progress on this problem, a discussion of the problem from a systems engineering perspective, a general system architecture developed by the authors, and a preliminary set of design requirements. This work is meant to provide a baseline and motivation for the further development and refinement of these systems within the systems engineering and robotics communities and is relevant to both academic and commercial research.