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US 2025/0143201 A1Published application
Autonomous agricultural vehicle systems and methods
AssigneeMoray Tecnologia Ltda.
InventorsJuan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Fabio Faria, Fabiano Adegas, Bruno Santos, Yves Sakamoto, Rodrigo Lopes, Victor Vazquez, Lucas de Cunto Costanzo, David Peter Swan, Liam David Harrison
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Abstract
An agricultural autonomous vehicle is provided which is operable to traverse a field and perform one or more detection tasks.
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A method for operating a vehicle, comprising:
- receiving, by the vehicle, a mission plan, the mission plan associated with one or more agricultural fields and defining a travel path through the one or more agricultural fields, the travel path including a plurality of waypoints;
- identifying, by the vehicle, at least a first detection task to be performed;
- controlling a drive system of the vehicle to cause operation of a first set of wheels and a second set of wheels to cause the vehicle to move along the travel path between the waypoints, the first set of wheels mounted on a first wall of the vehicle and the second set of wheels mounted on a second wall of the vehicle;
- controlling a detection system of the vehicle to operate at least a first camera to capture images for the at least first detection task, the at least first camera mounted on the first wall of the vehicle and oriented toward the second wall of the vehicle to acquire images of at least a portion of an area around one or more plants in a row of crops as the one or more plants pass between the first wall and the second wall;
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- transmitting information associated with the performance of the at least first detection task to a control system for processing.
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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium embodying a computer program executed on a computing device for performing a method to operate a vehicle, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the vehicle, a mission plan, the mission plan associated with one or more agricultural fields and defining a travel path through the one or more agricultural fields, the travel path including a plurality of waypoints;
- identifying, by the vehicle, at least a first detection task to be performed;
- controlling a drive system of the vehicle to cause operation of a first set of wheels and a second set of wheels to cause the vehicle to move along the travel path between the waypoints, the first set of wheels mounted on a first wall of the vehicle and the second set of wheels mounted on a second wall of the vehicle;
- controlling a detection system of the vehicle to operate at least a first camera to capture images for the at least first detection task, the at least first camera mounted on the first wall of the vehicle and oriented toward the second wall of the vehicle to acquire images of at least a portion of an area around one or more plants in a row of crops as the one or more plants pass between the first wall and the second wall;
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- transmitting information associated with the performance of the at least first detection task to a control system for processing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.