System and method for individual plant treatment based on neighboring effects
AssigneeBlue River Technology Inc.
InventorLee Kamp Redden
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Abstract
A method for plant treatment, including: receiving a first measurement for a plant from a sensor as the sensor moves within a geographic area comprising a plurality of plants; in response to receipt of the first measurement and prior to receipt of a second measurement for a second plant of the plurality, determining a set of treatment mechanism operation parameters for the plant to optimize a geographic area output parameter based on the first measurement and historical measurements for the geographic area; determining an initial treatment parameter for the plant; and operating a treatment mechanism in a treatment mode based on the set of operating parameters in response to satisfaction of the initial treatment parameter.
Claims50
A method comprising:
- identifying, from a measurement of a geographic area recorded by a sensor mounted to a plant treatment system, a first plant, a second plant, and a third plant wherein each plant is associated with other plants in the geographic area by an ambient environment feature;
- determining, for the second plant, an effect of applying a treatment fluid indirectly to the second plant based on the ambient environment feature, the indirect application resulting from applying the treatment fluid to the third plant;
- determining a set of operation parameters for operation of a treatment mechanism, the determination comprising:
- identifying, from the measurement of the geographic area, a first leaf and a second leaf of the first plant;
- identifying a treatment position between the first leaf and the second leaf;
- and
- determining a volume of treatment fluid to apply to the first plant at the treatment position based on the determined effect of indirectly applying the treatment fluid to the second plant;
- and
- applying the treatment fluid to the first plant at the treatment position by operating a subset of nozzles of the treatment mechanism based on the set of operation parameters.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause a plant treatment system to:
- identify, from a measurement of a geographic area recorded by a sensor mounted to a plant treatment system, a first plant, a second plant, and a third plant wherein each plant is associated with other plants in the geographic by an ambient environment feature;
- determine, for the second plant, an effect of applying a treatment fluid indirectly to the second plant based on the ambient environment feature, the indirect application resulting from applying the treatment fluid to the third plant;
- determine a set of operation parameters for operation of a treatment mechanism, the determination comprising:
- identifying, from the measurement of the geographic area, a first leaf and a second leaf of the first plant;
- identifying a treatment position between the first leaf and the second leaf;
- and
- determining a volume of treatment fluid to apply to the first plant at the treatment position based on the determined effect of indirectly applying the treatment fluid to the second plant;
- and
- apply the treatment fluid to the first plant at the treatment position by operating a subset of nozzles of the treatment mechanism based on the set of operation parameters.
A plant treatment system comprising:
- a sensor;
- a processor;
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- a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- identify, from a measurement of a geographic area recorded by a sensor mounted to a plant treatment system, a first plant, a second plant, and a third plant wherein each plant is associated with other plants in the geographic area by an ambient environment feature;
- determine, for the second plant, an effect of applying a treatment fluid indirectly to the second plant based on the ambient environment feature, the indirect application resulting from applying the treatment fluid to the third;
- determine a set of operation parameters for operation of a treatment mechanism, the determination comprising:
- identifying, from the measurement of the geographic area, a first leaf and a second leaf of the first plant;
- identifying a treatment position between the first leaf and the second leaf;
- and
- determining a volume of treatment fluid to apply to the first planet at the treatment position based on the determined effect of indirectly applying the treatment fluid the second plant;
- and
- apply the treatment fluid to the first plant at the treatment position by operating a subset of nozzles of the treatment mechanism based on the set of operation parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.