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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2020
Applicant:

Irobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Yamauchi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew Beaulieu, Somerville, MA (US);

Paul C. Balutis, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Assignee:

iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 34/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01); A01D 101/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 34/008 (2013.01); A01B 69/008 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0219 (2013.01); G05D 1/0221 (2013.01); G05D 1/0236 (2013.01); A01D 2101/00 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0208 (2013.01); Y10S 901/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of mowing an area with an autonomous mowing robot comprises storing, in non-transient memory of the robot, a set of geospatially referenced perimeter data corresponding to positions of the mowing robot as the mowing robot is guided about a perimeter of an area to be mowed, removing from the set of perimeter data one or more data points thereby creating a redacted data set and controlling the mowing robot to autonomously mow an area bounded by a boundary corresponding to the redacted data set, including altering direction of the mowing robot at or near a position corresponding to data in the redacted data set so as to redirect the robot back into the bounded area.


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