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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Rowbot Systems Llc, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventors:
Kent Cavender-Bares, St. Paul, MN (US);
Charles C. Bares, Ellicottville, NY (US);
Assignee:
RowBot Systems LLC, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C 7/00 (2006.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01); A01C 21/00 (2006.01); A01C 23/02 (2006.01); A01B 19/00 (2006.01); A01C 23/04 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); A01B 51/02 (2006.01); A01C 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 69/008 (2013.01); A01B 19/00 (2013.01); A01B 51/02 (2013.01); A01C 7/06 (2013.01); A01C 21/002 (2013.01); A01C 21/005 (2013.01); A01C 21/007 (2013.01); A01C 23/023 (2013.01); A01C 23/024 (2013.01); A01C 23/042 (2013.01); A01C 23/047 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); Y02P 60/214 (2015.11); Y02P 60/215 (2015.11);
Abstract
An autonomous vehicle platform system and method configured to perform various in-season management tasks, including selectively applying fertilizer, mapping growth zones and seeding cover crop within an agricultural field, while self-navigating between rows of planted crops and beneath the canopy of the planted crops on the uneven terrain of an agricultural field, allowing for an ideal in-season application of fertilizer to occur once the planted crop is well established and growing rapidly, in an effort to limit the loss of fertilizer.