# System-Level Development of a User-Integrated Semi-Autonomous Lawn Mowing System: Problem Overview, Basic Requirements, and Proposed Architecture

## TL;DR

This paper reviews the development of user-integrated semi-autonomous lawn mowers, proposing a system architecture and initial design requirements to guide future research in robotics and systems engineering.

## Contribution

It introduces a general system architecture and preliminary requirements for semi-autonomous lawn mowing systems from a systems engineering perspective.

## Key findings

- Reviewed current progress in semi-autonomous lawn mowers
- Developed a general system architecture
- Outlined initial design requirements

## Abstract

This concept paper outlines some recent efforts toward the design and development of user-integrated semi-autonomous home-sized lawn mowing systems from a systems engineering perspective. This is an important and emerging field of study within the robotics and systems engineering communities. The work presented includes a review of current progress on this problem, a discussion of the problem from a systems engineering perspective, a general system architecture developed by the authors, and a preliminary set of design requirements. This work is meant to provide a baseline and motivation for the further development and refinement of these systems within the systems engineering and robotics communities and is relevant to both academic and commercial research.