Robotic transport for grow systems
AssigneeHippo Harvest Inc.
InventorsEitan Marder-Eppstein, Wim Meeussen, Alexander Boenig
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Abstract
A grow system. The system includes growing plants in grow modules that are individually moveable. The plants grow in trays where roots never touch the water supply. The plumbing to the grow modules is a low flow, one way flow continual drip system that is hands free. A mobile robot can navigate around a growspace, bring any grow module from one location to another, and perform growspace operations. The growspace is a control space with data source zones and a control space manager. The control space manager can collect data and control different variables across different data source zones in order to determine optimal policies and conditions for data source growth and generation.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a grow module;
- a plumbing infrastructure including:
- a global water source;
- a water transport mechanism;
- and
- a mobile robot configured to perform transport or task automation within a grow space, as well as lift the grow module and transport the grow module to a different location, the mobile robot including:
- one or more sensors;
- a mobility mechanism;
- a processor;
- and
- memory.
A grow space comprising:
- a plurality of grow modules;
- a plumbing infrastructure including:
- a global water source;
- a water transport mechanism;
- and
- a mobile robot configured to perform transport or task automation within a grow space, as well as lift one or more grow modules and transport the one or more grow modules to a different location, the mobile robot including:
- one or more sensors;
- a mobility mechanism;
- a processor;
- and
- memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.