That's crazy, you make an outline and any areas not to go and it pretty much makes G-code for the mowers path. This seems very parallel to a computer controlled plotter, laser, or even a 3D printer nozzle moving on a first layer of a print. Really cool idea!
I am excited about your project! Small suggestion for a video editing tweak - your intro music is much much louder than the voice that comes afterwards. Thank you for all the work you've put into this.
A colleague and me talked about doing something like this for years but never had the time... We were into GPS, camera etc... But having it learn by using a controller is fast and smart. Hope this pans out!
@@pietheijn-vo1gt Indeed... I'm glad some people have/take the time and make something like this happen. It feels like camera and image recognition to avoid kids toys in the yard etc could be a cool future iteration.
@@DanielLiljeberg we're in the discord talking about this constantly. We are looking at mmwave radar, ToF depth sensors and camera's for object recognition. There are many paths to take here
@@pietheijn-vo1gt Sounds awesome... I see the solution is based on a custom board that is not available for purchase yet. When it is I'll be sure to buy one. My wife has been asking me to get a robotic lawnmower for years (I guess her other robotic one... me... isn't good enough)... But I think they all suck. Burry some cable just to enable them to run around like a drunk person... Xiaomi showed of one that was base don lidarr and cameras I think that sounded like it could be cool. But I haven't seen it actually available to the public yet.
@@pietheijn-vo1gt Also, not sure how accurate the GPS is, but given that the mower i trained using the controller it might not be an issue. I remember that we were thinking of using something like low power bluetooth or something like that from a few placements around the yard to get very accurate positioning.
This is a great project, you'd think by now there'd be a commercial automated lawn mower that works great. Maybe you could even sell this as a kit! Or kickstart an improved version with a single main board.
@@RizZRizZ- the complexity to make a controlled path is way greater than letting it bounce around randomly and there will not be any noticable difference in the end except for the higher price. running the same path over and over will also be very visible in the grass and it will be ridiculous to create setup with a controlled random path rather than just letting it bounce around as it already does
Looks like loads of companies have taken your idea and an hour flogging it around the world. I’ve had a robotic lawnmower for nearly 9 years I’ve been waiting for GPS. I’ve just come across your RUclips channel at the same time and seeing lots of companies launch their GPS-based robotic lawnmowers there obviously using your technology. Well done.
Great video and nice work! It would be great if you did a diy build and showed us the full process of building one. Will be following your channel for updates!
Yes! I have been thinking of doing this exact same project for *years*, but have never gotten around to it. One use case for "structured mowing" is challenging hills. Let the mower climb on lesser incline and let it descend down a steeper hill. That way it won't get stuck and dig a hole with the wheels. You could draw routes and perimeters on a map in your browser. Bring it with you on your vacation without having to install stuff (except a RTK base station). Move it it from place to place and have perfect fixed object avoidance. Now I just need to find the time to follow your plans which is a much lesser problem than starting from scratch :) I have played around with that same Ardusimple GPS before. Stupid accurate! And in my setup I had a dual gps rover setup that gives perfect heading even at stand still.
Really great work! I love how you can tell how much attention to detail and effort went into the project. Looking forward to seeing more content from you!
Can I make a suggestion/request? Can you have different mowing "patterns"? Something where after it goes back and forth, maybe it could do diagonal lines to ensure full coverage.
This is my dream! I also want to create such robot by myself because I kinda tired to mow the grass. But also for me one of the important feature would be in such robot to have storage for grass. Sometimes you use it sometimes not
I need to build one of these for my side yard. I'm tired of the neighbors bothering me when I just want to listen to podcasts and mow as fast as possible.
Holy S, this is great! Even though I don't even have a garden :D Maybe you could get in touch with some front end dev to make an app for that, that would make it easier to monitor and setup. Let the Open Source Fun begin!
Awesome work, and brilliant idea. I had the same thought when I started to look for a lawn-mower robot: they're basically dumb! So I'm not buying one until they either get smarter or drastically cheaper. They basically all require some wiring all around the area and can't really jump by themselves from one area to another (I, for example, have two areas to mow in my garden that are separated by a paved area). I always wondered why lawn-mower robot manufacturers struggle that much in making intelligent devices whereas vacuum robots like the one I own for already 6 years (Xiaomi Roborock S5) is literally painting a map of my house and discovering it by itself. Anyway, I'm really glad that some smart project like yours starts moving things forward!
Yes, that was my point. It's either dumb or too expansive, so not really interesting right now. With this project, the poster's intention is to make it both smart and cheap, which is definitely the way to go.
Wow, a few months ago I was thinking about how terrible robotic mowers are right now. Closed-source hardware and software are far slower than open source for niche electronics like this, and you have ZERO control as the owner. The only innovations they'll create are the ones they can charge you for, and why update last year's firmware when you can release a new model for more money? You're doing the Lord's work here!
That is a nice project, the robot learns from example I have some projects that do the same where I had an option for motion-by-queue actions and all AI learning but seeing it running in the backyard really creates a value project.
Your mowing simulator looks really realistic. Really cool how you program the thing. Not having to dig a bunch of trenches I nthe ground like the old style that followed a line under the ground kind of an electric fence. Hope this picks up and people can help you improve it since it's n open project.
Totally awesome. I look forward to your updates! I can’t spend $900ish for the shell and motors, so I’ll be looking around for a 3d printable version of a suitable shell. Again, great job!
Amazing stuff. I should have seen it coming, open-source is definitely the fastest way to get these things working without boundary/guide wires. The big vendors will not have the ability to put in the effort like an open-source community will. But they could and should join forces with the community and implement this solution into their product lines, rather than waste their time trying to develop their own from scratch. The idea of automower's coming with onboard API's to tie into with the open-source control software is kinda cool.
Great job👍 Hope you stay tuned and let us continue to participate in your project. I would definitely look forward to a video series about it. Thanks in advance.
Awesome project! You should do more videos on how some of the modules were built (the mechanics / electronics / programming) in some kind of tutorial fashion to get more exposure for the product
Awesome! Next step: smart vaccum robots! :D Thank you for making this open source. Not only does it seem much more efficient and logical it also seems a lot safer in terms of data protection, when you don't have to use or upload any layouts to a shady "smart" app.
there are already vacuum robots that are not randomly working and the entry price is also reasonable. Look on the xiaomi roborock s1 for example. The problem with mowers is they are all just random bumping robots. It would be interesting to gut a xiaomi vacuum as it has lidar and put it in a robot mower shell
A few cars use lidar already - and not having any problems. Of cause they use way more complex lidar sensors which cost >10000€... The vac robots just use a slow spinning single laser in one horizontal plane. Way easier to do - and cheaper. I guess this kind of sensor you could buy for a few bucks. But then you need a mapping solution which is not easy to do - but I am sure openly available (saw a yt video where the guy build a walking robot with this kind of automapping solution). The differential gps is a nice idea and probably the easiest to implement. This will not work inside the house though (GPS signal is blocked inside a house) - that is the reason why they went with the lidar approach...
@@DanielBulyovcsity Yes, I wrote that these systems you could just buy. Open source software available. It is not much more than a spinning mirror with a laser and a diode... But in bright sunlight probably not working well. And it is only giving you a single plane of the boundaries. Of you have a hugh yard with no fence around - the laser will not see anything. The mapper algorithm needs obstacles to "attach" to and create a map. My ecovacs sometimes looses this even in a crowded space inside the house...
Amazing work! Love the attention to detail and the whole open-source approach. Probably will build one this summer if I manage to save up the resources to buy everything needed :P My dad (me as well, probably) would freak out if he saw this thing in real life :D
Wow. I just found this. THANK YOU. I also just got an older robotic mower that runs great. Has 3 blades and powered wheels and mows just fine on random pattern and wire perimeter. This one is so old, it doesn't have a base station and automatic charging. Would love to improve it to the latest GPS RTK application. I'll check out your links. But I would very much like it, if you would do a complete video on your build. Starting with the mower and how you have installed everything. Especially the programming.
Hi Clemens Ein Open mover brauchen alle die einen Garten haben. Ich würde mich trauen es anzugreifen, habe aber keine Programmierungs Erfahrung. Dennoch werde ich mich über die kommende Updates freuen, und Mal schauen, ob ich die Teile kaufen kann, wenn deine Videos dar sind. Super Projekt!
Nice project. I know a lot of of people also try to build robotic mowers with hoverboard parts. You could also drive a hoverboard mainboard from the raspberry.
this a great! much respect for your work and your attitude towards open source, thank you :)
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I do like the teach-in function and the RTK GPS functionality, but I do want you to reconsider the random pattern, they are using it for a reason, if you read patent papers from Husqvarna about the issue of tracks in the lawn you will get why they using random patterns - or you will understand it when the season is over! Never the less I really liked your project! Keep it up!
have been looking into robot mowers the last weak and felt the need to just diy one myself, now I see this video and yea... I guess that is what I was searching for ;) Awesome project, will look into it and if I build one start contributing :D Thank you for making this video 👍
I pay a person $35 each vist to mow my lawn because I am old and can't do it myself. But I am a maker. During the winter, I can save that $70-$105 dollars per month to buy the parts needed to build the RTK base station then make my own robot mower. See Andreas Haeuser's RUclips video to make the mower, just forget about the radio part that detects the "invisible fence" wire around the perimeter. Then, in the spring, I can cancel my lawn service and let this mower pay for itself WITH CONSTANT SUPERVISION so the kids in the neighborhood don't touch the cute robot mower thingy!
I had i project for my engineering program in high school and I literally drafted the exact thing but didn’t pursue it because the rest of my team thought it wouldn’t be a good project
Nice Video of a very interesting project. But to give you a hint about improving your video quality: The Volume levels shifting very drastically. 1. The music at the start is way to loud 2. The first explanation is a good amount of volume 3. The next explanation phase is too low So watchers are need to adjust the volume back and forth, that takes attention away from your content ❤
Wow I love this. I have the exact same yardforce mower. I'd love to apply your brilliant mods. I don't suppose you are willing to put together an "upgrade" kit to sell to people like me 🤔
Thank you for your comment! I'm glad that you like my project. At the moment I'm not able to sell anything, since this is "just" a prototype of mine. I basically wanted to share the project and didn't anticipate the large response. Starting a hardware company will be a lot of work and I probably won't be able to do it in a short amount of time. You can however follow me here and / or on Discord for the latest news 🙂
Well it will be at least 1-2 years until its on the same level as the 450x in terms or reliability. And it being an open source project it wont get any warranty. And husqvarna already makes GPS perimiter mowers...
Very cool! I worked on building my own custom autonomous lawn mower 5 years ago but eventually lost my ambition. I was hoping to base it on an Intel Realsense 3D camera sensor. Very cool that CM level accuracy GPS is cheap enough these days! I will probably give this a try, although my yard is much bigger, so I will want to explore whether there are bigger off the shelf platforms.
@@janramonmartin I've come to the same conclusion after doing my own research for a few days. There are two ways to make RTK work: 1) Give the robot internet access so it can stream RTCM correctionsl from a base station that is hopefully in your city. This will still cost ~$500, not including the cost of the Wifi network. I'm not a fan of this solution because it depends on having your yard blanketed with reliable Wifi. I want my robot to work offline. Option (2) is to build your own base station and somehow wirelessly communicate the correction data. This will cost 2x$500 + your wireless communication solution.
@@chrisraper6181 im looking further into lidar and vslam, when you look at these applications it is largely irrelevant where on earth the robot is, so it makes sense to look at specialized localization tech (i hope..)
@@janramonmartin I've decided to give a depth camera another try using the RealSense D455. It is sort of like short range lidar (10m max) plus vision. Not sure what SLAM algorithm I'll try yet....
Very impressive work! How do you find the charger, does it still use the guide wire for that? One really cool thing about not needing the boundary wire is that the charger can be far outside the lawn, I imagine for instance you could program it so that the robot lives inside a garage or other safe location when charging and just comes out to mow, automatically triggering the garage door opener when it needs to. :)
Parking the robot inside a garage is a nice thought. The docking point is inside the map, so the mower is able to plan a path from its location to the docking station from anywhere on the map.
Good but clift ...in Castlemaine the walking path on the sides of roads are ratio 2m h by 2m long ..a pully.and rope normal mower works ...but a robotic could drive to flat ground then to the cliff.face side foot path area ..so 1 minute clift face mowing and 10 minutes redriving to the top to mow again the new cut
Excellent project, great design, and very practical. I absolutely love it, and I'm following to keep up with any updates and additional info. I really would like to build this. Couple thoughts/questions: 1. Have you thought about making the added circuit boards as a compact add-on component that would simply mount to the top and have an external wire harness that would plug into the mower? This would make it more compatible with other brands of mowers, or even other types of vehicles (snow plow RC car?). This would also make it much simpler to package these components as a single unit for sale, and I'd be happy to help you out with that venture. 2. Have you looked into incorporating LiDAR for object detection? Or perhaps using an existing product that uses LiDAR (such as a Wyze robot vacuum) and incorporating other functionality into that? 3. What does the UI look like for mapping? Could you program no-go zones in the mapping? Any thoughts on an android app UI so it could be controlled via wifi from anywhere?
None of these are important since he uses a 500€+ robot mower that already allows programming. I don't see the point of this project other than "I learned to control an already drone mower with an arduino and a RPi".
@@TrasherBiner Weeeeell, not quite. He's given a low tier, off the shelf lawn mower drone pathfinding and mapping capabilities superior to most top models (which in turn cost more than 4x the price of this base model). Even considering the cost of the additional hardware, that is quite a feat! Plus, the (claimed) capability of mapping multiple, seperate (!) areas makes the setup quite unique...
I love people that ask questions when they haven’t watched the video. #1 was partly answered in the video and #3 was shown explicitly in the video. Adding LIDAR for object detection would only be necessary for objects that weren’t mapped, almost always a moveable object unless the city installs a sign in your front yard or you plant a tree. Those things won’t happen very often and you would remap the area most likely. Or just let the mower bump into the new thing, stop, and go around it every time it mows the lawn. Not a big deal.
FOSS is life.
You don't know it yet, but you're actually helping to change the entire world for the better.
A bit like an open source ass wiping robot: Providing solutions to a manufactured problem.
This is wonderful!
Thank You! 😃
@@ClemensElflein now you may have an unlimited supply of rasberry pies
@@ahyaan2552
I can't believe some of the prices scalpers are charging. $250 for an 8GB Pi 4
yeah... until your neighbors kids throw a rock or something in the path of that mower.
@@wanderingandroid At which point you respond with your Raspberry Pi control drone...
That's crazy, you make an outline and any areas not to go and it pretty much makes G-code for the mowers path. This seems very parallel to a computer controlled plotter, laser, or even a 3D printer nozzle moving on a first layer of a print. Really cool idea!
Give it a 3D additive printer, and it can print green grass at perfect height over the bare spots ...
@@nevisstkitts8264 Astroturf automation? NGL that would sell in places like China or Arizona!
That drone footage timelapse of it mowing is awesome!
I am excited about your project! Small suggestion for a video editing tweak - your intro music is much much louder than the voice that comes afterwards. Thank you for all the work you've put into this.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm not experienced in video editing - it's the first one I've edited myself. Glad to get some feedback on the editing style!
how perfectly he goes trough all the area without leaving a gap looks so satisfying!
Dude I’ve been trying to make my own mower for so long and there was nothing remotely close to this. Your literally pioneering the entire space
Did u make one?
This is great, we will upload this to our platfform to make sure this wonderful project will reach more people.
A colleague and me talked about doing something like this for years but never had the time... We were into GPS, camera etc... But having it learn by using a controller is fast and smart. Hope this pans out!
many people talk, few actually do ;)
@@pietheijn-vo1gt Indeed... I'm glad some people have/take the time and make something like this happen. It feels like camera and image recognition to avoid kids toys in the yard etc could be a cool future iteration.
@@DanielLiljeberg we're in the discord talking about this constantly. We are looking at mmwave radar, ToF depth sensors and camera's for object recognition. There are many paths to take here
@@pietheijn-vo1gt Sounds awesome... I see the solution is based on a custom board that is not available for purchase yet. When it is I'll be sure to buy one. My wife has been asking me to get a robotic lawnmower for years (I guess her other robotic one... me... isn't good enough)... But I think they all suck. Burry some cable just to enable them to run around like a drunk person... Xiaomi showed of one that was base don lidarr and cameras I think that sounded like it could be cool. But I haven't seen it actually available to the public yet.
@@pietheijn-vo1gt Also, not sure how accurate the GPS is, but given that the mower i trained using the controller it might not be an issue. I remember that we were thinking of using something like low power bluetooth or something like that from a few placements around the yard to get very accurate positioning.
This is a great project, you'd think by now there'd be a commercial automated lawn mower that works great. Maybe you could even sell this as a kit! Or kickstart an improved version with a single main board.
wdym? There are tons of robot mowers that works well...
Have you looked at the cost for GPS controlled mowers? They are eeeexpensive 😅
RTK GPS is really expensive, the chip alone is atleast €100,- and you need two of them
Husqvarna makes one. Ungodly expensive and it needs a buried invisible fence though.
90% of them are just money scams
This is awesome! I've always hated the random nature of moving that the big companies gives you, but this, this is good!
Bosch doesn't
The random path has some benefits that a controlled sweep does not cover
actualy, non gps robot vacs/mowers works in similar way. not many use random patterns any more, have much better logistics now.
@@c7ndk And what are those benefits?
@@RizZRizZ- the complexity to make a controlled path is way greater than letting it bounce around randomly and there will not be any noticable difference in the end except for the higher price.
running the same path over and over will also be very visible in the grass and it will be ridiculous to create setup with a controlled random path rather than just letting it bounce around as it already does
Looks like loads of companies have taken your idea and an hour flogging it around the world. I’ve had a robotic lawnmower for nearly 9 years I’ve been waiting for GPS. I’ve just come across your RUclips channel at the same time and seeing lots of companies launch their GPS-based robotic lawnmowers there obviously using your technology. Well done.
Great video and nice work! It would be great if you did a diy build and showed us the full process of building one. Will be following your channel for updates!
@@userou-ig1ze First step, buy an existing 400 euro robot mower...
@@p_x_ then rpi 4 100$ and the arduino one for 20$
@@p_x_ LOL right...then why would you need to build this.
@@Chris-lc3sq 3:22 Ask the creator?
@@Chris-lc3sq
Watch the video where he explains why existing commercial robotic mowers are not to his liking and why he started his build using one.
I have been hoping/dreaming for someone to create an open source mowing platform like this! I'll be watching this like a hawk for the next year.
I love to see projects like this come to reality, thanks!
Yes! I have been thinking of doing this exact same project for *years*, but have never gotten around to it. One use case for "structured mowing" is challenging hills. Let the mower climb on lesser incline and let it descend down a steeper hill. That way it won't get stuck and dig a hole with the wheels. You could draw routes and perimeters on a map in your browser. Bring it with you on your vacation without having to install stuff (except a RTK base station). Move it it from place to place and have perfect fixed object avoidance. Now I just need to find the time to follow your plans which is a much lesser problem than starting from scratch :) I have played around with that same Ardusimple GPS before. Stupid accurate! And in my setup I had a dual gps rover setup that gives perfect heading even at stand still.
Really great work! I love how you can tell how much attention to detail and effort went into the project. Looking forward to seeing more content from you!
Hello tanjak did you build one?
great project! I also really enjoyed the videography-- it absolutely sold your mowing demo.
That's fantastic - thanks for sharing! So much better than robot mowers available on the market in Oz!
It isnt better than the other mowers available on the market... Husqvarna made GPS perimiter mowers years ago...
Super cool man! With some industrial suppliers and some well written instructions this lawnmower could be for anyone.
This the coolest thing ever!!! Time to show the US how useful this thing is!
Clement, great work and I like it very much. Very likely that I will build one. I will follow your work closely. Keep it up. Thanks again.
Can I make a suggestion/request? Can you have different mowing "patterns"? Something where after it goes back and forth, maybe it could do diagonal lines to ensure full coverage.
It is a recording, so you in theory could record multiple plans. He would just need to implement support for scheduling different plans.
Ich bin absolut begeistert. Habe Dich direkt mal abonniert Clemens. Kompetent und sympathisch… top! VG Mirko
I can’t imagine being this smart. Super impressive!
Now that's what I'm talking about! Way to go mate! Looking forward to make one for my yard.
This is my dream! I also want to create such robot by myself because I kinda tired to mow the grass. But also for me one of the important feature would be in such robot to have storage for grass. Sometimes you use it sometimes not
You have potential, I'm happy to be here since the beginning, suscribed!
Wie geil ist das denn. Ich glaube du hast hier einen Nerv getroffen. Bitte betreue das Projekt weiter :)
I need to build one of these for my side yard. I'm tired of the neighbors bothering me when I just want to listen to podcasts and mow as fast as possible.
Holy S, this is great! Even though I don't even have a garden :D
Maybe you could get in touch with some front end dev to make an app for that, that would make it easier to monitor and setup.
Let the Open Source Fun begin!
Awesome work, and brilliant idea.
I had the same thought when I started to look for a lawn-mower robot: they're basically dumb!
So I'm not buying one until they either get smarter or drastically cheaper.
They basically all require some wiring all around the area and can't really jump by themselves from one area to another (I, for example, have two areas to mow in my garden that are separated by a paved area).
I always wondered why lawn-mower robot manufacturers struggle that much in making intelligent devices whereas vacuum robots like the one I own for already 6 years (Xiaomi Roborock S5) is literally painting a map of my house and discovering it by itself.
Anyway, I'm really glad that some smart project like yours starts moving things forward!
there's a belgian start up called eeve. The lawn-mower doesn't need a wire, and it can be used a security camera :-D
They're smart but not cheap.
Yes, that was my point. It's either dumb or too expansive, so not really interesting right now.
With this project, the poster's intention is to make it both smart and cheap, which is definitely the way to go.
Siiiick!! Well done Clemens! Instant sub.
Great. I need one with a 5ft cut width on tracks for bush hogging fields.
Wow, a few months ago I was thinking about how terrible robotic mowers are right now. Closed-source hardware and software are far slower than open source for niche electronics like this, and you have ZERO control as the owner. The only innovations they'll create are the ones they can charge you for, and why update last year's firmware when you can release a new model for more money? You're doing the Lord's work here!
That is a nice project, the robot learns from example I have some projects that do the same where I had an option for motion-by-queue actions and all AI learning but seeing it running in the backyard really creates a value project.
Your mowing simulator looks really realistic. Really cool how you program the thing. Not having to dig a bunch of trenches I nthe ground like the old style that followed a line under the ground kind of an electric fence. Hope this picks up and people can help you improve it since it's n open project.
Totally awesome. I look forward to your updates! I can’t spend $900ish for the shell and motors, so I’ll be looking around for a 3d printable version of a suitable shell.
Again, great job!
Great project! Nice to see someone build proper robotic lawnmover.
This is absolutely amazing and quite overdue! Top work!
Amazing stuff. I should have seen it coming, open-source is definitely the fastest way to get these things working without boundary/guide wires. The big vendors will not have the ability to put in the effort like an open-source community will. But they could and should join forces with the community and implement this solution into their product lines, rather than waste their time trying to develop their own from scratch. The idea of automower's coming with onboard API's to tie into with the open-source control software is kinda cool.
Beautiful , thanks for sharing , thanks for making the files available.
Wow! Well done! Lawnmower robots are one of my interests and I agree that the current models out there just suck. They are unreliable.
Great job👍
Hope you stay tuned and let us continue to participate in your project.
I would definitely look forward to a video series about it.
Thanks in advance.
Looking forward for future updates regarding this project.
Even though I don’t have a lawn, I HAVE been waiting for this. Not entirely sure why 🤔
Super gemacht. Bin gespannt auf Fortschritte für rauhere Umgebung
It it a great projekt and a great work. I am looking forward to see more.
The best ist the teaching process so intuitiv.
This is nice. When the right time comes, I will really check this out again and try to build it. It is superb. Great project!
Awesome! Watching the top down view reminded me of my cnc mill doing a facing cut, while avoiding hold down clamps! Aka, your tree.
This is awesome great job, I will definitely be looking to do this whenever I can finally afford a house of my own
I don't even have a lawn but this was a great video!
Sehr gute Umsetzung, endlich eine brauchbare Lösung!
Awesome project! You should do more videos on how some of the modules were built (the mechanics / electronics / programming) in some kind of tutorial fashion to get more exposure for the product
This is an amazing project. I can't express enough how great this is. Well done mate.
Good luck with the project! It looks great!
Great Job! Its the mower that most people need. Looking forward to seeing more.
I still believe that the best autonomous lawn mower is a goat
This is the project I was waiting for - well done!
This is AMAZING. I can't wait to build one! 🤩
Awesome! Next step: smart vaccum robots! :D
Thank you for making this open source. Not only does it seem much more efficient and logical it also seems a lot safer in terms of data protection, when you don't have to use or upload any layouts to a shady "smart" app.
there are already vacuum robots that are not randomly working and the entry price is also reasonable. Look on the xiaomi roborock s1 for example. The problem with mowers is they are all just random bumping robots.
It would be interesting to gut a xiaomi vacuum as it has lidar and put it in a robot mower shell
@@DanielBulyovcsity The lidar would get dirty every day and you would have to wash it. Oh and it will become scratched and eventually broken.
A few cars use lidar already - and not having any problems. Of cause they use way more complex lidar sensors which cost >10000€... The vac robots just use a slow spinning single laser in one horizontal plane. Way easier to do - and cheaper.
I guess this kind of sensor you could buy for a few bucks. But then you need a mapping solution which is not easy to do - but I am sure openly available (saw a yt video where the guy build a walking robot with this kind of automapping solution).
The differential gps is a nice idea and probably the easiest to implement. This will not work inside the house though (GPS signal is blocked inside a house) - that is the reason why they went with the lidar approach...
@@obiwan007 robovac lidar is already hacked people are harvesting them from xiaomi lidars and there are github repos for the whole processing of data
@@DanielBulyovcsity Yes, I wrote that these systems you could just buy. Open source software available. It is not much more than a spinning mirror with a laser and a diode... But in bright sunlight probably not working well. And it is only giving you a single plane of the boundaries. Of you have a hugh yard with no fence around - the laser will not see anything. The mapper algorithm needs obstacles to "attach" to and create a map.
My ecovacs sometimes looses this even in a crowded space inside the house...
Subscribed!! Wooo I have been waiting for this for so long!
Wow this is amazing! I was waiting for the Segway one, but this is very very interesting
Great Projekt. Looking forward to see more content about this project
As someone who has installed Agopengps in my tractor I look forward to getting my hands on this
This is so awesome, I’m definitely going to submit some code and try and help any way I can
I'm just learning about GPS RTK. It's fantastic!
Amazing work. Thank you! This was also on my to do list but now I will not start from scratch :) I will build one next year :)
I've never actually seen a raspberry pi used in such a cool way. Nice!
Look into AI and Computer vision on a pi
Amazing work! Love the attention to detail and the whole open-source approach. Probably will build one this summer if I manage to save up the resources to buy everything needed :P
My dad (me as well, probably) would freak out if he saw this thing in real life :D
BRILLIANT! Much better than the random angles the others employ. I hope you do well with this.
Excited to see more of this!
Wow. I just found this. THANK YOU. I also just got an older robotic mower that runs great. Has 3 blades and powered wheels and mows just fine on random pattern and wire perimeter. This one is so old, it doesn't have a base station and automatic charging. Would love to improve it to the latest GPS RTK application. I'll check out your links. But I would very much like it, if you would do a complete video on your build. Starting with the mower and how you have installed everything. Especially the programming.
Hi Clemens
Ein Open mover brauchen alle die einen Garten haben.
Ich würde mich trauen es anzugreifen, habe aber keine Programmierungs Erfahrung.
Dennoch werde ich mich über die kommende Updates freuen, und Mal schauen, ob ich die Teile kaufen kann, wenn deine Videos dar sind.
Super Projekt!
Nice project. I know a lot of of people also try to build robotic mowers with hoverboard parts. You could also drive a hoverboard mainboard from the raspberry.
this a great! much respect for your work and your attitude towards open source, thank you :)
I do like the teach-in function and the RTK GPS functionality, but I do want you to reconsider the random pattern, they are using it for a reason, if you read patent papers from Husqvarna about the issue of tracks in the lawn you will get why they using random patterns - or you will understand it when the season is over! Never the less I really liked your project! Keep it up!
have been looking into robot mowers the last weak and felt the need to just diy one myself, now I see this video and yea... I guess that is what I was searching for ;) Awesome project, will look into it and if I build one start contributing :D Thank you for making this video 👍
Thank you! Glad to have you!
Really great work. There's a huge amount of understanding required to achieve this. Well done.
Actually wery nice! Congrats on that!
Awesome! This is something I always wanted to do as well. Thanks for sharing this!
I pay a person $35 each vist to mow my lawn because I am old and can't do it myself. But I am a maker. During the winter, I can save that $70-$105 dollars per month to buy the parts needed to build the RTK base station then make my own robot mower. See Andreas Haeuser's RUclips video to make the mower, just forget about the radio part that detects the "invisible fence" wire around the perimeter. Then, in the spring, I can cancel my lawn service and let this mower pay for itself WITH CONSTANT SUPERVISION so the kids in the neighborhood don't touch the cute robot mower thingy!
I had i project for my engineering program in high school and I literally drafted the exact thing but didn’t pursue it because the rest of my team thought it wouldn’t be a good project
That's right, it's a robotic lawnmower, without cables and that mows in straight lines without chaotic movements
Can't wait for someone to take this concept to scale
Very good project, and a lot of hard work you did. You inspire me to build one of own.
Nice Video of a very interesting project. But to give you a hint about improving your video quality: The Volume levels shifting very drastically.
1. The music at the start is way to loud
2. The first explanation is a good amount of volume
3. The next explanation phase is too low
So watchers are need to adjust the volume back and forth, that takes attention away from your content ❤
Wow I love this. I have the exact same yardforce mower. I'd love to apply your brilliant mods. I don't suppose you are willing to put together an "upgrade" kit to sell to people like me 🤔
+1 :D
Thank you for your comment! I'm glad that you like my project. At the moment I'm not able to sell anything, since this is "just" a prototype of mine. I basically wanted to share the project and didn't anticipate the large response. Starting a hardware company will be a lot of work and I probably won't be able to do it in a short amount of time. You can however follow me here and / or on Discord for the latest news 🙂
@@ClemensElflein thanks for the reply 😀. Have you custom built any of the pcb's or is everything available "off the shelf"?
@@equigs There are multiple custom PCBs in this project, you can find the designs online. I'm currently not able to sell any hardware though.
@@ClemensElflein awesome project. could your next video be a tutorial how ton replicate from of the shelf hardware
great project Clemens.
Just an idea for future updates - but maybe have the robot create lawn stripes with an additional piece that brushes down the grass?
Man this looks so much better than my 450x!! Nice work!!
Well it will be at least 1-2 years until its on the same level as the 450x in terms or reliability. And it being an open source project it wont get any warranty. And husqvarna already makes GPS perimiter mowers...
Incredible. This is what I've been looking for. Amazing work😎👍
Very cool! I worked on building my own custom autonomous lawn mower 5 years ago but eventually lost my ambition. I was hoping to base it on an Intel Realsense 3D camera sensor. Very cool that CM level accuracy GPS is cheap enough these days! I will probably give this a try, although my yard is much bigger, so I will want to explore whether there are bigger off the shelf platforms.
CM level accuracy GPS is not cheap enough these days - its still 1000 for 2 receivers
@@janramonmartin I've come to the same conclusion after doing my own research for a few days. There are two ways to make RTK work: 1) Give the robot internet access so it can stream RTCM correctionsl from a base station that is hopefully in your city. This will still cost ~$500, not including the cost of the Wifi network. I'm not a fan of this solution because it depends on having your yard blanketed with reliable Wifi. I want my robot to work offline. Option (2) is to build your own base station and somehow wirelessly communicate the correction data. This will cost 2x$500 + your wireless communication solution.
@@chrisraper6181 im looking further into lidar and vslam, when you look at these applications it is largely irrelevant where on earth the robot is, so it makes sense to look at specialized localization tech (i hope..)
@@janramonmartin I've decided to give a depth camera another try using the RealSense D455. It is sort of like short range lidar (10m max) plus vision. Not sure what SLAM algorithm I'll try yet....
Sieht fast aus wie beim Ardumower!!!!👍
Amazing.
Look forward to doing this myself
Awesome project 🙂 super professional
Very impressive work! How do you find the charger, does it still use the guide wire for that? One really cool thing about not needing the boundary wire is that the charger can be far outside the lawn, I imagine for instance you could program it so that the robot lives inside a garage or other safe location when charging and just comes out to mow, automatically triggering the garage door opener when it needs to. :)
Parking the robot inside a garage is a nice thought. The docking point is inside the map, so the mower is able to plan a path from its location to the docking station from anywhere on the map.
Good but clift ...in Castlemaine the walking path on the sides of roads are ratio 2m h by 2m long ..a pully.and rope normal mower works ...but a robotic could drive to flat ground then to the cliff.face side foot path area ..so 1 minute clift face mowing and 10 minutes redriving to the top to mow again the new cut
Excellent project, great design, and very practical. I absolutely love it, and I'm following to keep up with any updates and additional info. I really would like to build this.
Couple thoughts/questions:
1. Have you thought about making the added circuit boards as a compact add-on component that would simply mount to the top and have an external wire harness that would plug into the mower? This would make it more compatible with other brands of mowers, or even other types of vehicles (snow plow RC car?). This would also make it much simpler to package these components as a single unit for sale, and I'd be happy to help you out with that venture.
2. Have you looked into incorporating LiDAR for object detection? Or perhaps using an existing product that uses LiDAR (such as a Wyze robot vacuum) and incorporating other functionality into that?
3. What does the UI look like for mapping? Could you program no-go zones in the mapping? Any thoughts on an android app UI so it could be controlled via wifi from anywhere?
None of these are important since he uses a 500€+ robot mower that already allows programming. I don't see the point of this project other than "I learned to control an already drone mower with an arduino and a RPi".
@@TrasherBiner Weeeeell, not quite. He's given a low tier, off the shelf lawn mower drone pathfinding and mapping capabilities superior to most top models (which in turn cost more than 4x the price of this base model). Even considering the cost of the additional hardware, that is quite a feat!
Plus, the (claimed) capability of mapping multiple, seperate (!) areas makes the setup quite unique...
@@JescoLincke Husqvarna made GPS perimiter following mowers years ago...
I love people that ask questions when they haven’t watched the video. #1 was partly answered in the video and #3 was shown explicitly in the video. Adding LIDAR for object detection would only be necessary for objects that weren’t mapped, almost always a moveable object unless the city installs a sign in your front yard or you plant a tree. Those things won’t happen very often and you would remap the area most likely. Or just let the mower bump into the new thing, stop, and go around it every time it mows the lawn. Not a big deal.
@@capitalinventor4823 Numbering comments as #1 and #3 doesn't really work because the order changes for every person
Great start! We ❤️ open source
this is awesome, well done sir.