Roktrack Pylon-Guided Robotic Mower

Open source robotic mower using image recognition technology. No GPS. No boundary wire.

• Just place the pylon and flip the switch.
• Solar charging and AC charging.
• As a surveillance camera that can detect person and animals while charging.

Demo

Single Operation

Parallel Operation

Requirement

• Raspberry Pi 3A+, 4B, Zero 2W(without speaking)
• libv4l-dev
• libssl-dev

See BUILD INSTRUCTION for information on assembling the hardware.

Installation

sudo apt install -y libv4l-dev libssl-dev
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ysuito/roktrack/master/installation.sh | sh

Usage

Surround the area to be mowed with pylons (traffic cones), place Roktrack and execute the following command.

cd roktrack
sudo ./roktrack

Auto-Startup

If you want to start it at the same time as system startup, create a file with the following contents as /lib/systemd/system/roktrack.service.

[Unit]
Description = roktrack

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/pi/roktrack/roktrack
Restart=always
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/roktrack

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Load it and activate it.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable roktrack.service

Finally, set the Raspberry Pi to Read Only.

sudo raspi-config nonint enable_overlayfs
sudo systemctl reboot

License

The source code is licensed GPL v3.0. The files under the assets and hardware directories are licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0,see LICENSE.

Links

English

• hackaday.io

Japanese

• Roktrack1 protopedia
• Roktrack2 protopedia