Calibration of systems to deliver agricultural projectiles

US11653590B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Verdant Robotics, Inc.

Inventors

• Gabriel Thurston Sibley · Menlo Park, US
• Curtis Dale Garner · Modesto, US
• Andre Robert Daniel Michelin · Topanga, US
• Lorenzo Ibarria · Dublin, US
• Patrick Christopher Leger · Belmont, US
• Benjamin Rewis · Oakland, US
• Shi Yan · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2019
• Grant date: May 23, 2023
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05B9/06
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously identify and deliver for application a treatment to an object among other objects, data science and data analysis, including machine learning, deep learning, and other disciplines of computer-based artificial intelligence to facilitate identification and treatment of objects, and robotics and mobility technologies to navigate a delivery system, more specifically, to an agricultural delivery system configured to identify and apply, for example, an agricultural treatment to an identified agricultural object. In some examples, a method may include identifying an emitter of an agricultural projectile delivery system to calibrate a trajectory of an agricultural projectile to intercept a target, predicting a projectile impact site relative to the reference of alignment, determining a calibration parameter to align the projectile impact site and the target, and adjusting the trajectory based on the one or more calibration parameters.