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Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2016
Applicant:

Harvest Croo, Llc, Plant City, FL (US);

Inventor:

Robert Pitzer, Tampa, FL (US);

Assignee:

HARVEST CROO, LLC, Plant City, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 46/30 (2006.01); G01B 5/14 (2006.01); A01D 45/00 (2018.01); A01D 46/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 5/14 (2013.01); A01D 46/30 (2013.01); A01D 45/006 (2013.01); A01D 46/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

A harvesting vehicle including a body including a plurality of picking systems configured to be carried over plants growing in one or more plant beds to harvest crops of the plants. Each picking system can include an imaging system and can be configured to (a) determine a height of the picking system over one of the one or more plant beds as the picking system is carried over the plants and (b) provide distance measurement data based on the height. The harvesting vehicle also can include a plurality of wheels each having a vertical position with respect to the body. The harvesting vehicle also can include a suspension control system configured to perform: receiving the distance measurement data from the plurality of picking systems; determining adjustment information for an adjustment of the vertical position of one or more of the plurality of wheels with respect to the body based at least in part on the distance measurement data provided by at least one of the plurality of picking systems; and controlling the adjustment of the vertical position of the one or more of the plurality of wheels with respect to the body based on the adjustment information. Other embodiments are provided.


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