US 12,302,807 B2
Method for monitoring growth of plants and generating a plant grow schedule
Jonathan Binney, Lockhart, TX (US); Winnie Ding, Lockhart, TX (US); Peter Cheng, Lockhart, TX (US); Martha Patricia Romero Luna, Lockhart, TX (US); Jamie Young, Lockhart, TX (US); and Sarah Osentoski, Lockhart, TX (US)
Assigned to Inevitable Technology Inc., Lockhart, TX (US)
Filed by Inevitable Technology Inc., Lockhart, TX (US)
Filed on Jul. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/384,568.
Application 17/384,568 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/028,641, filed on Sep. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,647,700.
Application 17/028,641 is a continuation of application No. 15/955,651, filed on Apr. 17, 2018, granted, now 10,813,295.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/486,391, filed on Apr. 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0007589 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01); A01G 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/416 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC A01G 5/00 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1679 (2013.01); G01N 33/0098 (2013.01); G05B 19/416 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/0016 (2013.01); G05B 2219/39369 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40233 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01); Y10S 901/01 (2013.01); Y10S 901/47 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for monitoring growth of plants within an agricultural facility comprising:
accessing a series of ambient conditions captured by a fixed sensor unit, arranged proximal a grow area within the agricultural facility, during a first time period;
writing the series of ambient conditions to a corpus of plant records associated with plants occupying a group of modules within the grow area based on known locations of modules within the grow area, the corpus of plant records comprising a first set of plant records associated with a first set of plants occupying a first module, in the group of modules, during the first time period;
dispatching a mover to autonomously deliver the first module from the grow area to a transfer station within the agricultural facility during a second time period succeeding the first time period;
for each plant in the first set of plants:
interpreting a final outcome of the plant based on plant-level data captured by the transfer station while transferring the plant out of the first module during the second time period; and
writing the final outcome of the plant to a plant record, in the first set of plant records, associated with the plant; and
deriving a set of relationships between ambient conditions and final outcomes of plants grown within the agricultural facility based on the corpus of plant records associated with plants grown in the agricultural facility.
 
5. A method for monitoring growth of plants within an agricultural facility comprising:
accessing a series of ambient conditions captured by a fixed sensor unit, arranged proximal a grow area within the agricultural facility, during a first time period;
writing the series of ambient conditions to a corpus of plant records associated with plants occupying a group of modules within the grow area based on known locations of modules within the grow area, the corpus of plant records comprising a first set of plant records associated with a first set of plants occupying a first module, in the group of modules, during the first time period;
dispatching a mover to autonomously deliver the first module from the grow area to an imaging station within the agricultural facility during the first time period;
accessing a set of module-level data captured by the imaging station when occupied by the first module during a first period of time;
interpreting intermediate outcomes of a first set of plants occupying the first module during the first time period based on the set of module-level data;
writing intermediate outcomes of the first set of plants to the first set of plant records associated with the first set of plants; and
deriving a first set of relationships between ambient conditions and intermediate outcomes of plants grown within the agricultural facility based on the corpus of plant records associated with plants grown within the agricultural facility.