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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2016
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Ken Goldberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Stefano Carpin, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Stephen McKinley, Berkeley, CA (US);
Stavros Vougioukas, Davis, CA (US);
David Gealy, Arroyo Grande, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
According to some embodiments of the invention, an adjusting device for adjusting a passive drip irrigation valve to enable precision irrigation includes a device body configured to be at least one of hand-held or attachable to a robot, the device body having a manipulator end, and a manipulator assembly contained within and extending from the manipulator end of the device body. The manipulator assembly includes a coarse alignment adjustment assembly constructed and arranged to align the adjusting device with the passive drip irrigation valve. The manipulator assembly also includes a fine actuator configured to rotate the passive drip irrigation valve by a specified angle.