Toro Automated Trimmer

Project Summary

Golf courses use many hours of labor a year to manually trim around infrastructures on the course. This project’s goal is to create a device that will automatically trim around a piece of infrastructure, such as a sprinkler, to reduce the hours of labor needed to maintain these infrastructures.

Design Goal

To design an automated trimmer that is able to identify an infrastructure and trim around precisely without causing damage to the infrastructure.

Design Constraints

• Device must trim within 0.2 inches of target infrastructure
• Device cannot damage infrastructure
• Device must be able to trim around circular and rectangular infrastructures
• Trimming must be done in a timely manner
• System is independent