[Dprglist] garden roomba

[Doug Paradis]

David,
    It will be interesting how the garden weeder robot pans out. The $250
cost point would make it affordable enough for a home owner. I am not so
interested in gardening, however I would be interested in a unit that kept
my shrubbery beds clean of weeds and secondary scrub suckers. It would have
to ride over mulch and eliminate non-scrub/flowers targets. Keeping
landscape beds clean is a major nuisance.

    I have both of those books on my shelves. I found them when I used to
search Half Price books for interesting books. Amazon has them available at
reasonable cost.  Both are very good reads and excellent references. The
Joesph Jones book shows up in a lot of college lectures, but is also
suitable for the hobbyist roboticist. It is my favorite of the two.

Here is a link to an MIT lecture about the same topic.
http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.189/fall2005/pub/lectures/Releases/2005_09_08_lecture2.pdf

Regards,
Doug P.


On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:20 AM, David Anderson <davida at smu.edu> wrote:

> Hey, DPRG!   Anybody out there?
>
> Joe Jones is starting a kick-starter campaign for a roomba-style robot to
> weed your garden:
>
> <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602836/a-roomba-for-your-garden/>
> <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602836/a-roomba-for-your-garden/>
>
> You may remember Joesph Jones as the author of "Behavior Based Robotics",
> which at one time we had in the DPRG library, back when we had a library:
>
> <https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Programming-Practical-
> Behavior-Based-Robotics/dp/0071427783>
> <https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Programming-Practical-Behavior-Based-Robotics/dp/0071427783>
>
> as well as, with Anita Flynn, the classic "Mobile Robots"
>
> <https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Robots-Inspiration-
> Implementation-Second/dp/1568810970>
> <https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Robots-Inspiration-Implementation-Second/dp/1568810970>
>
> which was my first introduction to subsumption.  I still have my original
> edition, (although my memory is that he was very unhappy with the second
> edition, which was published without his input or approval).
>
> cheers!
> dpa
>
>
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