AUTONOMOUS LAWN MOWER

TEAM-MEMBERS
ANAS AHMED
FAREED JAMMAL
MUBASHER JALIL
ZAID BIN AKRAM
CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 DESIGN APPROACH
 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
 CONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION
 The main purpose of building the autonomous lawn mower is
to have the lawn mower cut the certain dimension of grass
without to have a person be with it all times.

 The autonomous lawn mower is supposed to cut the grass and

avoid moving and non moving objects, such as trees, pets and
people.

 It must be able to cut the grass evenly in less than or equal to the
amount of time that human operator could.

 The autonomous lawn mower would save time and energy of

the person who owns it.
DESIGN APPROACH
 Autonomous objects are created make tasks simpler. The lawn
mower will consist of following subsystems.
 Frame subsystem
 Battery/power subsystem
 Robotics subsystem
 GPS subsystem
 Computer subsystem
 Mower subsystem
 Wheels subsystem

 Each of these systems require different kind of technology to function

and communicate with each other in order to perform task, such as
moving in different directions and avoiding obstacles.
SUBSYSTEM DECRIPTIONS
FRAME:

 The frame will be designed to provide an adequate sectioning for the

separate subsystems.

 The mower deck will be mounted beneath the frame.

 The batteries will have a separate compartment for mounting and

secured safely.

 The control computer and drive motor controller will be mounted

above the battery section on the upper portions of the frame.

 Sensors will be placed , accordingly to provide best performance on

the frame
BATTERY

 For this project, battery or batteries will be needed to

provide 24v to the electric wheelchair motors.

 The batteries will also be wired up to the electric mower

providing the power needed to spin the blade.

 For the software part of the design, batteries will be wired

up to power the sensors and the control computer.
ROBOTICS

 For this lawn mower to be autonomous it requires robotics

components. These components are motors, microcontroller and
sensors.

 The sensors that will be feeding into the microcontroller will be

ultrasonic, infrared and motion.

 The sensors will detect various things such as obstacles and distance
travelled.

 These parts will interact with one another to create a robot lawn
mower.
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

 The GPS will be the navigation system for the lawn mower.

 The GPS will take information from the orbiting satellites, pass it
through wide area augmentation system and process that into
coordinates.

 Once the GPS has the coordinates it will pass them to computer
program which will then compare the coordinates to dimensions of
the area of grass that needs to be cut.

 The only software for the GPS chip need is the BASIC stamp
editor(use to program the GPS chip).
COMPUTER SYSTEM

 The computer system will be the center of autonomous lawnmower.

 The computer will take coordinates and decide where its location
is, compared to boundaries of area to cut and then send
information to drive motor control-box whether to rotate forward,
backwards or stop.

 The computer will also receive information from the sensors that
when the mower get close to solid objects, then computer will make
corrective action to not hit the object.
MOWER

 This subsystem encompasses the mower blade, mower deck,

the mower power switch and the electric motor spinning
blade.

 The mower deck will be used to protect the mower blade

and will provide attaching point for electric motor.

 The mower deck will be attached directly to the frame.

WHEEL DRIVE MOTORS & CONTROLLER & WHEELS

 The two wheel chair drive motors and motor controller are
the subsystem that provide steering for the entire system.

 The wheel chair motors will receive power through the

motor controller.

 The motor controller instructs the motors on what to do.

 BLOCK DIAGRAM
Wheelchair Wheelchair
motor 1 Motor
motor 2
controller Motion
sensor
Drive motor
Control box
Battery / Microcontroller
Computer
Power

Mower Sensor block

Power Sonar sensor
switch Infrared
sensor
Mower
motor
 TEAM-TIMELINE
Time period Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May

Design Review

Build Frame

Test Frame
Refine Frame or
modification
Additional
parts and
components
Frame/Motors/
Mower/
Software
Test
programming
System Test
report updating
LANGUAGES
 In order to properly integrate everything together
and to get everything to be automated, there will have
to be program to make it move, run the GPS chip,
collect inputs from sensors, run the mower deck and
digitally map out the mowing area.

PROGRAMMING DEVELOPER OPERATING

LANGUAGE SYSTEM
C Microsoft windows
C++ Microsoft windows
CONCLUSION
 The project will be comprised of subsystems including
mechanical , robotics ,sensors, computer controlling
and GPS navigation system.

 Safety will be held paramount with the addition of

both manual and wireless emergency stops in the
form of power brakes that will allow the power
subsystem to be cut off from rest of the subsystem.
This will be our project