4ag Robotics Inc.

Peter Mankowski

James Boyd Gibson

Nathan Tomlinson

Prashanth Haleyur Narayana Rao

Mehfuz A Rahman

Vijaya Sankar Velayudham Jayashree

A robotic mushroom crop manager periodically or continuously receives mushroom bed data corresponding to a mushroom bed including growing mushrooms at a plurality of times. A trained mushroom bed model is used to process the mushroom bed data to generate mushroom bed state vectors respectively characterizing corresponding states of the mushroom bed at the plurality of times. Crop management equipment is controlled to perform a crop management program comprising a sequence of actions to be performed by crop management equipment comprising, for each current action in the sequence of actions, selecting, based on corresponding a current mushroom bed state vector, a selected crop management tool from a plurality of crop management tools. The crop management equipment is controlled to use the selected crop management tool to perform the current action on the mushroom bed.

Machine-learning-enabled tool changer for mushroom crop management system

A mushroom trimming and sorting system comprises a stem trimming device, a positioning system, an imager set, and a controller operable to control the positioning system to move a single mushroom into view of the imager set, to generate an image set of the mushroom, and to process the image set (and optionally other sensor data) to determine mushroom properties of the mushroom. The positioning system may include a SCARA robot with suction-type end effector and single-mushroom elevator with gripping mandibles. The processing may employ a trained machine-learning model. The mushroom properties may include a length of an end portion of the stem bearing soil, and a sorting category of the mushroom based on parameters of the cap including degree of gill opening. The end portion is them trimmed to eliminate soil and other defects, and sorting the mushroom into one of a plurality of receptacles.

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Vernon, Canada

Peter Mankowski