Solar Powered Automatic Lawn Mower

Using Arduino

I. Background of the study

In 2023, thousands of people are using push mowers and traditional

mowers, there are 11,247 employed mowers in the United States and is

expected to increase in numbers (zippia.com, 2022). The number of people

using lawn mowers in the Philippines are also expected to increase in the

future. Lawn mowers provide an easy way to properly maintain and protect

your lawn, it can be used to cut grass fields to make your lawn prettier and

nicer.

Traditional push mowers use gas and a bulky motor to achieve the

ability to cut the grass cleanly. However the traditional lawn mowers can be

hard to use because it is heavy, it also causes pollution because it uses gas as

a power source. So we the Grade 9 STE of Governor Julian Fullon Pacificador

National School have planned to make an automatic lawn mower.

Automatic lawn mowers use cutting-edge technology to keep your lawn

consistently trimmed with almost no effort on your part. By cutting just a few

millimeters of grass off the top every day, your lawn stays sharply manicured

without noticeable streaks. In addition, robot lawn mowers can be equipped

with a solar panel to have the ability to be charged and used when the sun is

out shining (Lawnlove.com, Stephen Kime, 2022).

Gas powered lawn mowers produce about 95 decibels of noise when in

use (cleanairlawncare.com, 2022). Gas mowers can also be very dangerous,

since they use gasoline or petrol as a fuel. Anything over 70 decibels of noise

may start to damage your hearing (cdc.gov, 2022).

 It is estimated that hour-for-hour, gasoline powered lawn mowers produce 11

times as much pollution as a new car. Each gas-powered lawn mower produces as

much air pollution as 43 new automobiles driven 12,000 per year – lawn care

produces 13 billion pounds of toxic pollutants per year (epa.gov, 2023). This is why

we want to try to make a robot lawn mower that is powered by the sun to help

prevent injuries and more efficiently mow your lawn.

II. Hypothesis

1. There is no significant impact on the noise levels of the environment when

the solar powered automatic lawn mower robot is used.

2. The robot has no significant cutting power to efficiently cut and trim grass.

3. The robot is not as efficient as the traditional gas lawn mowers.

4. There is no significant impact on the effectiveness of maintaining a lawn

when using the solar powered automatic lawn mower.

III. Objectives

Generally the objective of this experiment is to try and create a robot that

can cut the grass fields efficiently without the need of an operator.

The study specifically aims to:

1. To determine how effective a solar powered automatic lawn mower is.

2. To determine how it can help in maintaining grass fields / lawns.

3. To determine if it is more efficient than the ones in the market currently.