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Article: Just keep rolling a lawn ION's autonomous mowers: you might not know it from your own backyard performance, but mowing a lawn accurately and precisely constitutes a difficult systems problem, requiring centimeter-level accuracy and precision control for straight lines and smooth turns. Three student teams answered the Institute of Navigation's call to produce a smarter-than-the-average lawnmower.(Application Challenge)
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- GPS World
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- September 1, 2004
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As industry and society continue to make GPS navigation systems part of daily life, some frontiers remain unexplored. Take lawn mowing, for example. Who has not, while sweating behind a lumbering mower on a hot day, wished that a robot would do the job, while we sat in the shade sipping lemonade? The Institute of Navigation's (ION) Dayton Section, located in southern Ohio--well known for large lawns and hot, humid summer days--did something about this by hosting the First Annual Autonomous Lawnmower Competition. Sponsored by ION's Satellite Division, the event sought to inspire college students to pursue navigation-related research projects and a career in this field.
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