Owning a huge yard creates expensive landscaping bills for homeowners or hours invested landscaping themselves. A robotic lawn mower saves time and money as well as regular yard maintenance. Renesas offers all the major parts needed for a robotic lawn mower.
Benefits
- Single IC for BLDC motor control with integrated analog front-end (AFE)
- Feature-rich battery management system (BMS) for an up to 8 cells Li-ion battery with reliable safety features for cell balancing and protection
- Efficient battery charging in CV/CC profile
- Low Power consumption for longer battery life
- Rain detection using weatherproof humidity sensor and capacitive touch sensing unit (CTSU) for returning to docking station for safe operation
- Collision detection using time-of-flight (ToF) sensors and lift/tilt detection using 6-axis IMU for stopping the blades, ensuring enhanced safety
- Docking station with integrated electronic fencing using perimeter wire and charging status monitoring
- Remote control and theft protection alarm using wireless/GPS connectivity
Applications
- Robotic lawn mowers
- Autonomous mobile solutions for yard, home and warehouse
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Products
Description
MCU
RA4M1
High efficiency 48 MHZ Arm® Cortex®-M4 core with inbuilt CTSU, LCD controller, 14-bit ADC (25Ch)
RAJ306001
General purpose motor control IC for 3-phase BLDC motors with inbuilt MCU and AFE
RL78/G12
Low cost general purpose 16-bit MCU
Power
ISL94202
Multi-cell Li-Ion battery manager for 3-8 cells
ISL81401A
Wide input/output up to 40V 4-switch synchronous buck-boost controller
ISL85410
Wide input synchronous buck with integrated FETs
ISL80410
Ultra low Iq, wide Vin, adjustable Vo LDO
Analog
HS3101
High accuracy weatherproof relative temperature/humidity sensor with IP67 rated membrane
ISL29501
Low power, long range ToF signal processing IC
ISL28214
General purpose micropower Dual RRIO OpAmp
ISL28191
Single ultra low noise RRIO OpAmp
Dialog
AT45DQ161
16-Mbit SPI Serial Flash memory
Block diagram
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