Harvesting fruits or vegetables—comprises providing a tractor and a plurality of storage bins in a supply location for the fruit or vegetable; deploying the storage bins to a harvesting area using the tractor; providing a harvester; harvesting fruit or vegetable and storing same in the storage bins at the harvesting area; relocating the fruit or vegetable in the filled storage bins with the tractor to a storage location; providing an operation control and management system (OCMS) configured to receive and process data; receiving storage bin location data indicative of a location of the storage bins from the storage bins; receiving harvesting data indicative of at least one harvesting process parameter in the OCMS; and providing tractor control data in the OCMS in response the received process parameter(s). Tractor control data controls an operation mode of the tractor for deploying and/or relocating—the storage bins. Also a system is disclosed.
A01B 69/04 - Special adaptations of automatic tractor steering, e.g. electric system for contour ploughing
A01D 46/00 - Picking of fruits, vegetables, hops, or the likeDevices for shaking trees or shrubs
G06K 7/14 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light
The present invention provides a method for on-site identification of damaged fruits and ripeness assessment, immediately after picking/harvesting, thereby enabling discarding damaged fruits on-site without delivering such damaged fruits to a warehouse, which also reduces harvesting time and improves harvesting efficiency. The method of the invention enables improved sorting compared to known robotic harvesters as it is based on a 360° inspection of the fruit and without having the leaves and branches interfere. The method of the invention further enables a preliminary sorting of the fruits according to determined fruits' grade based on identified blemishes in each fruit.
A method for harvesting fruit or vegetable is disclosed, the method comprising providing a tractor (1); providing a plurality of storage bins (2) in a supply location, the storage bins con- figured to store fruit or vegetable; deploying the plurality of storage bins (2) in a harvesting area (3) by means of the tractor (1); providing a harvester (5); harvesting fruit or vegetable by the harvester (5) and storing the fruit or vegetable in the plurality of storage bins (2) deployed in the harvesting area (3); relocating filled storage bins filled with fruit or vegetable from the harvesting area (3) to a storage location by the tractor; providing an operation control and management system (6) comprising one or more data processors and a data storage device and configured to receive and process data; receiving storage bin location data indicative of a location of the storage bins from the plurality of storage bins (2); receiving harvesting data indicative of at least one harvesting process parameter in the operation control and man- agement system (6); and providing tractor control data in the operation control and manage- ment system (6) in response to the at least one harvesting process parameter. An operation mode of the tractor (1) for at least one of deploying the plurality of storage bins (2) and relo- cating the filled storage bins is controlled according to the tractor control data. Furthermore, a system for harvesting fruit or vegetable is provided.
The present invention provides a method for on-site identification of damaged fruits and ripeness assessment, immediately after picking/harvesting, thereby enabling discarding damaged fruits on-site without delivering such damaged fruits to a warehouse, which also reduces harvesting time and improves harvesting efficiency. The method of the invention enables improved sorting compared to known robotic harvesters as it is based on a 360° inspection of the fruit and without having the leaves and branches interfere. The method of the invention further enables a preliminary sorting of the fruits according to determined fruits' grade based on identified blemishes in each fruit.
The present invention provides an autonomous harvesting system designed to be mounted onto a standard collection bin/wagon for autonomously harvesting and filing the bin.
The present invention provides a fruit's protection system designed to be mounted onto a standard collection bin for safely placing harvested fruits inside the collection bin without harming same.
The present invention provides systems and methods for harvesting and diluting crops during night time or under low illumination conditions using ground- or aerial-robot/unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV).
B64C 39/02 - Aircraft not otherwise provided for characterised by special use
G05B 13/02 - Adaptive control systems, i.e. systems automatically adjusting themselves to have a performance which is optimum according to some preassigned criterion electric
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Goods & Services
Drones in the nature of autonomous robots in the form of
drones for agricultural use to prune, pick and harvest
fruits. Agricultural services, namely, pruning and picking and
harvesting fruits for others.
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44 - Medical, veterinary, hygienic and cosmetic services; agriculture, horticulture and forestry services
Goods & Services
Drones in the nature of autonomous robots in the form of drones for agricultural use to prune, pick and harvest fruits Agricultural services, namely, pruning and picking and harvesting fruits for others
Devices, systems and methods for harvesting fruits, such as apples, pears, apricots, peaches, citrus fruits, small-citrus fruit, lemon, avocado, vines, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers and peppers.
A vacuum-based fruit gripper assembly for use in a fruit-picking machine comprises: a support having a main axis and receivable onto a fruit-picking machine, the support comprising an aperture therethrough for communication with a source of suction generator; and a flexible gripping suction-nipple for engaging a fruit, mounted on the support and connected to the aperture. The nipple is equipped with an interlock mechanism and has two configurations: a first open-configuration when the nipple is not attached to a fruit and no vacuum/suction is generated, in which the interlock mechanism is open and the nipple is free to twist; and a second locked/crammed-configuration when the nipple is attached to a fruit and vacuum/suction is applied, in which the interlock mechanism is locked thereby preventing twisting of the nipple.
The present invention provides a fruit harvesting, dilution and/or pruning system comprising: (a) a computerized system for mapping an orchard or a map of trees position and their contour in a plantation; (b) a management system for autonomous unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) fleet management for harvesting, diluting or pruning fruits; and a method for UAV autonomous harvesting, dilution and/or pruning of an orchard.
A01D 46/30 - Robotic devices for individually picking crops
G06F 16/587 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
B64C 39/02 - Aircraft not otherwise provided for characterised by special use
G06T 5/50 - Image enhancement or restoration using two or more images, e.g. averaging or subtraction
B64U 101/00 - UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications
B64U 101/30 - UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for imaging, photography or videography
B64U 101/60 - UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for transporting passengersUAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for transporting goods other than weapons
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44 - Medical, veterinary, hygienic and cosmetic services; agriculture, horticulture and forestry services
Goods & Services
Drones in the nature of autonomous robots for agricultural
use to prune, pick and harvest fruits. Agricultural services, namely, pruning and picking and
harvesting fruits.
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
44 - Medical, veterinary, hygienic and cosmetic services; agriculture, horticulture and forestry services
Goods & Services
Drones in the nature of autonomous robots for agricultural
use to prune, pick and harvest fruits. Agricultural services, namely, pruning and picking and
harvesting fruits.
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
44 - Medical, veterinary, hygienic and cosmetic services; agriculture, horticulture and forestry services
Goods & Services
Drones in the nature of autonomous robots in the form of drones for agricultural use to prune, pick and harvest fruits Agricultural services, namely, pruning and picking and harvesting fruits for others
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
44 - Medical, veterinary, hygienic and cosmetic services; agriculture, horticulture and forestry services
Goods & Services
Drones in the nature of autonomous robots in the form of drones for agricultural use to prune, pick and harvest fruits Agricultural services, namely, pruning and picking and harvesting fruits for others
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS HARVESTER INSTALLATION AND FARM HARVESTING OPERATION
The present invention provides an autonomous harvesting system designed to be mounted onto a standard collection bin/wagon for autonomously harvesting and filing the bin.
The present invention provides a fruit's protection system designed to be mounted onto a standard collection bin for safely placing harvested fruits inside the collection bin without harming same.
The present invention provides systems and methods for harvesting and diluting crops during night time or under low illumination conditions using ground- or aerial- robot/unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV).
The present invention provides an improved, autonomous unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) for harvesting or diluting fruit, and a control unit for coordinating flight and/or harvesting missions thereof, as well as a system and method for harvesting fruits.
The present invention provides a computerized system for mapping an orchard, and a method for producing precise map and database with high resolution and accuracy of all trees in an orchard.
The present invention provides a management system for autonomous unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) fleet management for harvesting or diluting fruits, and a computerized method for optimal harvesting using a UAV fleet.
The present invention provides a fruit harvesting, dilution and/or pruning system comprising: (a) a computerized system for mapping an orchard or a map of trees position and their contour in a plantation; (b) a management system for autonomous unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) fleet management for harvesting, diluting or pruning fruits; and a method for UAV autonomous harvesting, dilution and/or pruning of an orchard.
