Robot vehicle and method using a robot for an automatic treatment of vegetable organisms
AssigneeEcoRobotix SA
InventorsSteve Tanner, Aurélien Demaurex, Gabriele Mondada
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Abstract
The invention concerns a method using a robot for an automatic treatment of a weed, the method comprises steps of capturing images of said weed with a camera on said robot; determining with said images a distance between the weed and a second vegetable organism; and selecting a treatment tool of said robot for a treatment of the weed from a group of treatment tools as function of said distance. The invention further concerns a robotic vehicle for carrying out the method for an automatic treatment of a weed.
Claims20
A method using a robot for an automatic treatment of weeds, the method comprises steps of:
- capturing images of a weed with a camera on said robot;
- determining with said images a distance between said weed and a cultivated plant through direct measurement;
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- selecting a treatment tool from a group of treatment tools of said robot for a treatment of the weed as a function of said distance, wherein the group of treatment tools comprises a physical tool and a spraying tool
- wherein the group of treatment tools comprises a sub-group comprising physical tools and a sub-group comprising spraying tools, and wherein a least electric power consuming tool is selected in either sub-groups.
A method using a robot for an automatic treatment of weeds, the method comprises steps of:
- capturing images of a weed with a camera on said robot;
- determining with said images a distance between said weed and a cultivated plant through direct measurement;
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- selecting a treatment tool from a group of treatment tools of said robot for a treatment of the weed as a function of said distance, wherein the group of treatment tools comprises a physical tool and a spraying tool
- wherein the physical tool is a mechanical cutting or uprooting tool, an optical tool emitting electromagnetically radiations, an electrical tool emitting electric discharge or a heat radiant tool, and
- wherein said mechanical tool comprises a rod arranged to rotate about its longitudinal axis and having a terminal portion arranged to penetrate a surface of a ground and wherein a single longitudinal straight blade is connected to the rod and extends substantially orthogonally outward from the rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.