  This concept paper outlines some recent efforts toward the design and
development of user-integrated semi-autonomous home-sized lawn mowing systems
from a systems engineering perspective. This is an important and emerging field
of study within the robotics and systems engineering communities. The work
presented includes a review of current progress on this problem, a discussion
of the problem from a systems engineering perspective, a general system
architecture developed by the authors, and a preliminary set of design
requirements. This work is meant to provide a baseline and motivation for the
further development and refinement of these systems within the systems
engineering and robotics communities and is relevant to both academic and
commercial research.
