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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2024
4ag Robotics Inc., Salmon Arm, CA;
Peter Mankowski, Vernon, CA;
Prashanth Haleyur Narayana Rao, Salmon Arm, CA;
Mehfuz A. Rahman, Blind Bay, CA;
James Boyd Gibson, Salmon Arm, CA;
4AG Robotics Inc., Salmon Arm, CA;
Abstract
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.