US 12,314,897 B2
Apparatus and method for high throughput measurement of lodging resistance in crops
Daniel J. Robertson, Moscow, ID (US); Austin R. Bebee, Moscow, ID (US); George Clayton Bennett, Moscow, ID (US); and Christopher J. Stubbs, Moscow, ID (US)
Assigned to University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (US)
Filed by University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/465,623.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/076,716, filed on Sep. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0076197 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G01L 1/26 (2006.01); G06Q 50/02 (2024.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G01L 1/26 (2013.01); G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus configured to evaluate crop lodging resistance, comprising:
a body;
a force bar coupled to the body via a height adjustment mechanism, the height adjustment mechanism configured to enable adjustment of a force bar height relative to a ground surface, the force bar configured to be moved through and contacted by a plot of stems;
a force sensor coupled to the force bar and configured to detect a force acting on the force bar; and
a processor in communication with the force sensor and configured to receive force signals therefrom, the force signals indicative of forces acting on the force bar, whereby force signals data is used to analyze flexural stiffness of the plot of stems.