E-Goat Gold

Solar farms utilize photovoltaic (PV) panels to convert sunlight into electrical energy. Ground-mounted solar arrays require maintaining the grass and weeds that grow around the base of the arrays, and these grasses tend to be thick, dense and difficult to reach via conventional mowing techniques. As a result, solar energy is not entirely free and a major expense of solar farms is ground maintenance. While there may be various approaches for providing ground maintenance service, the goal of this project is to minimize the monthly expense of cutting the grass by using AI-assisted, autonomous solar powered rover-based robots to articulate and guide electric weed whackers. This is team 23's final product, and documentation from the beginning of this project to the end.