I mapped my driveway when there were no cars, thinking this was best so that the Yarbo could accommodate both cars being there and not being there. However, my system (or all) has OCD. While it recognized cars being in the way, it spent over half the battery trying to find a way around the cars. It did leave the area twice, but still came back and focused on trying to get around the cars.
Is there a way to work with this logic? Can I make a boxed in area for the cars, and a small ‘path’ that connects it to the rest of the driveway? That way the yarbo sees the single route as blocked and can move on?
Here’s the driveway, garage is behind the cars. Our cars line up like this to charge, and there’s not enough room for yarbo to go behind them - and we don’t want it behind them as it could entangle with the power cables, and the 500lbs pull could damage or create a serious problem with the chargers and cars. Note in this image battery is at 64% it got to 34% in no time by going back and forth around the front of the cars, and ignored the 300’ long driveway to the top right. It normally can complete the entire driveway by using ~60% battery - but this OCD on the cars destroyed that battery.
Obstacle avoidance for the snow blower needs work. The obsession is literally it staying away from the object but trying to fill in the line for the area it is avoiding. It kind of just hovers in a spot playing out the line and it is painful to watch. The best way to address this is to place NGZ’s across that area and enable and disable them as needed. It will stop obsessing over filling out those lines it’s missing and just ignore the area altogether. Some people even have multiple where cars might be parked and just turn on the ones where vehicles are. If you’re going to have all 3 there you could just make the one.
This is basically how I set up our driveway.
I created one main ‘driveway zone’ that contains all parts of the driveway where cars are never parked. That main zone omits places where my kids park their cars and where they charge them.
Then I created small sub zones for each of the parking spots where the kids’ cars get parked and where they charge. So the theory is that I can ALWAYS run Yarbo with the main driveway zone, and I can also selectively turn on the other parking space zones depending on where the kids’ cars happen to be parked at the time.
Now this is all just theory at this point. Haven’t used the snow blower yet, so maybe it won’t work out the way I have planned. But we’ll soon see.
1 Like
Thank you!
I did setup one block for all three, mostly due to the charging cable that can be left randomly across all three spots. Be nice if it could see and avoid power cables, but maybe in the future 
1 Like
