US 12,284,945 B2
Robotic handling of picked fruit or vegetables
Ignacio Martin Requena, Cambridge (GB); Maximilian Knolseisen, Cambridge (GB); and Martin Stoelen, Plymouth (GB)
Assigned to Fieldwork Robotics Limited, Plymouth (GB)
Appl. No. 17/601,330
Filed by Fieldwork Robotics Limited, Plymouth (GB)
PCT Filed Apr. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/GB2020/050890
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/201766, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1904774 (GB), filed on Apr. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0174877 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. A01D 46/30 (2006.01)
CPC A01D 46/30 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Fruit or vegetable picking system comprising:
a moveable base;
one or more robotic picking arms mounted on the base, the one or more picking arms each having a picking end-effector configured to pick a fruit or vegetable; and
one or more storage systems mounted on the base, the one or more storage systems having: a filling location configured to receive picked fruit or vegetables; a storage region having a plurality of container locations, each container location being configured to house a fruit or vegetable container; and one or more robotic handling mechanisms configured to move fruit or vegetables from the filling location to any of the plurality of container locations,
wherein the one or more robotic picking arms are controllable to deliver picked fruit or vegetables to the filling location,
wherein each of the one or more robotic picking arms comprises a local storage vessel configured to receive a plurality of fruit or vegetables picked by the picking end-effector, and each of the one or more robotic picking arms is controllable to deliver picked fruit or vegetables from the local storage vessel to the respective filling location.