Casmobot is an acronym for Computer Assisted Slope Mowing Robot. The Casmobot vision is to design and develop an application module for slope mowers which enables them to perform the mowing semi-autonomously. For detailed information please read the Casmobot FAQ.
Casmobot is based on a Lynex slope mower and has been retrofitted with a Field Robotics Embedded Computer (FiRECom) the predecessor to FroboMind. Sensors installed are a dual RTK-GPS system from DataGrid.
Casmobot was the first of our robot platforms which is remote controlled by a Nintendo Wiimote. What started out as a funny idea one late friday afternoon in the robotics lab has turned out to be a great demonstrator of user friendly robot control as the Wiimote seems so much more intuitive than an industrial standard remote control unit.