US 12,352,578 B2
Autonomous mower navigation system and method
Her-Jye Chang, Zionsville, IN (US)
Assigned to MTD PRODUCTS INC, Valley City, OH (US)
Filed by MTD PRODUCTS INC, Valley City, OH (US)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/073,600.
Application 18/073,600 is a division of application No. 16/700,885, filed on Dec. 2, 2019, granted, now 11,519,733.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/774,315, filed on Dec. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094756 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/20 (2006.01); A01D 34/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); A01D 101/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/20 (2013.01) [A01D 34/008 (2013.01); G05D 1/0011 (2013.01); G05D 1/0219 (2013.01); G05D 1/0278 (2013.01); A01D 2101/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for autonomous mower navigation, comprising:
a robotic golf greens mower;
an RTK-GPS base for providing RTK-GPS correction data;
a cloud based data processing service for processing geolocation data;
one or more computer servers;
one or more mobile devices;
a data communications network for providing communications access between any of the RTK-GPS base, the mobile device, the cloud service, and the robotic greens mower;
wherein the RTK-GPS correction data is collected over a period of time and communicated via the mobile device to the cloud service for post processing and is processed by the cloud service to produce processed RTK-GPS correction data and the processed RTK-GPS correction data is provided to the robotics golf greens mower via the data communications network;
wherein providing the processed RTK-GPS correction data via the data communications network further comprises: communicating the processed RTK-GPS correction data from the cloud service back to the mobile device, and then to the cloud server where it is deployed to the robotics golf greens mower.