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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by karmicthreat on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:18PM (#22004475)
It could work and that plus an IMU is what we were doing at my now recently defunct lawnmower startup. For us to have the precision we needed we had about a 3500$ setup to do so.
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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by jcims on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:22PM (#22005924)
Didn't all the jostling of driving over terrain mess with the IMU?
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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by karmicthreat on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:25PM (#22005954)
Not really, we were using an IMU with a magnetometer and it was reasonably stable when it was setup correctly. As well as calibrated well. That with the GPS made things stable enough that it was at least a very good demo.
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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by jcims on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:39PM (#22006131)
Very cool!
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