I have a ~50’ section of driveway that has maybe 2-3’ of grass on either side of it (and woodland beyond out that). And both sides are connected to lawn areas on both ends. What’s the best way to map this? I’ve tried a couple dead ends on either side of the driveway, and that’s an inefficient mess. You can see on the screenshot that the rover returned via the lawn area, instead of the dead end. (oh, and the little red dots are from shadows, I’m guessing, from when I mapped the DE’s). One of the others wen back and forth the same dead end 3 times.
That “sidewalk” feature that’s coming would be great for this. But that doesn’t help you today.
What happens if you make each into an area, and use spiral? If it works, it’d probably finish them with just the perimeter laps.
Those red splotches are possibly track slippage. They should disappear with each run and only reappear if it slips again. You can watch it run in the app and a status message should pop up and say Yarbo is trying to get unstuck and then it will add the red splotch. Or it will say something like Yarbo is avoiding an obstacle if it detects obstructions with the camera or bumper. Bumper will generate a collision warning.
I’d be tempted to try one of these:
- Map each side as an Area and extend its width onto the driveway a few feet (if the driveway is about the same height as the lawn). This will give the rover room to move. Yes, it’ll mow your driveway, but it’s effectively a turning area for the rover, so no biggie. Give it enough room to do whatever cut you want – parallel, spiral, etc. Use Pathways to allow the rover to get to both sides.
- Do the above but with one big Area and a big No-go Zone. Map the driveway and the sides as one big Area. Plop a No-go Zone down the center to keep the rover off most of the driveway. Leave enough width along the sides similar to the item above to allow the rover to move/turn. Note: Leave a lane in the big Area across the driveway for the rover to squeak by the No-zo Zone so it’ll get both sides.
WDYT? In lieu of Deadends, would this work? I was thinking about doing this type of thing with my private road (the sides need to be cut), but the traffic out there – on a road with only about 9 houses – is way too insane. I suspect your driveway may be a little more quiet.
The blotches and jerky lines happened right after I mapped it. It’s flat and straight. But it’s partial shady area, so I think the vision system thought it was an obstacle.
I thought something similar, but I worry about traffic on the driveway. It seems like there is always someone coming or going - kid’s friends, family, delivery drivers, more delivery drivers.
I’m going try to the 2 mapped areas (with a small amount of overlap into the driveway) and using gentle contact to map it.