AUTONOMOUS MOWERS

Boundary wires are a pain. They deteriorate, they get cut, sometimes it is impossible to get them where they need to be, tree roots, concrete, etc. Kiss the wires goodbye and good riddance.

RTK is short for real time kinematics. A GPS receiver capable of RTK takes in the normal signals from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems along with a correction stream to achieve a 1 centimeter positional accuracy. When the satellite connection is blocked while going under trees or buildings, Kress' proprietary algorithm uses the mower's inertial and odometry data to maintain accurate navigation.

Reduces load to effectively cut dense grass and produce fine clippings. KR173 / KR174 / KR233 / KR236

Instead of bouncing off the boundaries like a ball on a pool table, Kress autonomous mowers automatically plot a systematical pattern to insure efficient complete cutting of the whole yard. When encountering an obstacle most robotic mowers would make a 90 degree turn taking off in a new direction, but Kress traverses around the object and then resumes the pattern. KR173 / KR174 / KR233 / KR236

Once having achieved making a robot smart enough to mow in a pattern and know where it had been, the next step was to master the collaboration between two or more robots to work as a team.

When mowing downhill Kress robotic mowers use regenerative breaking to convert the excess kinetic energy into electricity which is stored in the battery to increase runtime and offset the extra energy used going up hill. Kress robotic mowers are designed to navigate across up to 40% grade slopes.

Information about the yard, weather, zone sizes, battery life and other data are used to automatically optimize the mowing cycles.