Abstract

content of the information does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred. Mowing a lawn can be a difficult and tedious chore. The goal of this paper is to introduce the idea of using the visual property of texture to design an autonomous lawnmower robot that mows a lawn similar to how a human would (in some type of pattern.) Previous autonomous lawnmowers that have been designed, the LawnNibbler and LawnShark for example, rely on the principle of randomness to mow in a confined area. While this method will work, it will take an extraordinary amount of time. This paper first presents an overview of texture segmentation and then the wavelet transform is introduced. Texture analysis will be accomplished by use of the wavelet transform. The current state and future research of this project are then presented.

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