


BASE STATION: The base station was set up on a INSERT HEIGHT pole with a clear view of the sky from any angle. The antenna was drilled down to a square metal sheet with a rubber tube on one side to prevent the metal from cutting the wires. This antenna was brought down to the base station water proof box and plugged into the ZED-F9P. A 915 millahertze radio was used to connect the Base Station and Rover together.

ROVER & DATA COLLECTION: The Rover used the same radio to connect to the base station to allow for RTK correction. The corrected coordinates were read on the Arduino Mega and saved onto a SD card placed in an Ethernet Shield.
As the mower is driven by the user, the coordinates are saved onto the SD card to enable the path to be repeated using the coding algorithm for the mower to follow.
RTK CORRECTION: The Base Station and Rover receive coordinates at the same time, when the base station receives a different coordinate, the rover corrects its own coordinate by the same difference.