[Dprglist] garden roomba

[David Anderson]

Cool.

I think there was a DPRG guy back in the Science Place days who was 
working on an agricultural robot.  He had a very accurate GPS system and 
made some benchmarks for us.   Anyone remember who that was?

dpa


On 06/14/2017 02:28 PM, Doug Paradis wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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