For those of you with current robotic mowers, how is the mapping and ability for the mower to follow a plan? How about not going over certain things? Like can you draw a flower bed on a map and it won't drive there?
I'm asking because my property is divided into four sections. The house/driveway/fence in the back essentially splits the property in half. One of the halves is divided by a crushed stone driveway lined with granite pavers that a robot couldn't go over. The other half has a fence/shed/garden the robot possibly couldn't navigate.
The two front halves could be considered joined as there is only a driveway intersecting it and that's level with the grass. If there was a way to map the areas and then almost draw a "line to follow" then one mower could reach everywhere.
I made a quick map of it below. The yellow, purple, and green sections are lawn. The brown gravel section nothing could go over. In an ideal world, I could draw a line from the purple to the front green (about 15' on a residential neighborhood road), it could drive over to the other green, and then, to get to the yellow section, it could drive under the fence (blue line) that runs near the edge of the property. Once it's done, it would do the reverse and drive back around the entire house and recharge in the purple section. The back fence is too close to the ground so it couldn't drive from yellow to purple.
The property is only 0.6acres so not a large area. I just know with the inside robotic vacuums they can't be "directed" to do things and will only do their automatically created motions. If it couldn't be set to drive along the road, I could potentially get two with a base station in the yellow area. That would only work if the machine can drive under a fence though. I assume it doesn't have overhead sensors? The one from the yellow section could do yellow and the two green sections. A small one with a base in the purple section could exclusively do that area. However, if they don't respect no-go zones for gardens, this is all a non-start.
Thanks for any advice!
I'm asking because my property is divided into four sections. The house/driveway/fence in the back essentially splits the property in half. One of the halves is divided by a crushed stone driveway lined with granite pavers that a robot couldn't go over. The other half has a fence/shed/garden the robot possibly couldn't navigate.
The two front halves could be considered joined as there is only a driveway intersecting it and that's level with the grass. If there was a way to map the areas and then almost draw a "line to follow" then one mower could reach everywhere.
I made a quick map of it below. The yellow, purple, and green sections are lawn. The brown gravel section nothing could go over. In an ideal world, I could draw a line from the purple to the front green (about 15' on a residential neighborhood road), it could drive over to the other green, and then, to get to the yellow section, it could drive under the fence (blue line) that runs near the edge of the property. Once it's done, it would do the reverse and drive back around the entire house and recharge in the purple section. The back fence is too close to the ground so it couldn't drive from yellow to purple.
The property is only 0.6acres so not a large area. I just know with the inside robotic vacuums they can't be "directed" to do things and will only do their automatically created motions. If it couldn't be set to drive along the road, I could potentially get two with a base station in the yellow area. That would only work if the machine can drive under a fence though. I assume it doesn't have overhead sensors? The one from the yellow section could do yellow and the two green sections. A small one with a base in the purple section could exclusively do that area. However, if they don't respect no-go zones for gardens, this is all a non-start.
Thanks for any advice!
