HANDLING PLANTS USING IMAGE DATA

Patentradars sammanfattning

This invention from Södra Skogsägarna describes a fully automated plant handling arrangement in which a robot arm, guided by image data from one or more cameras, identifies individual candidate plants and their roots within a shared gripping area containing freely arranged, potentially entangled saplings. The system determines a gripping position relative to the root, transports the plant to a coating area (e.g., wax dipping or spraying for weevil protection), optionally cools it, and places it in a designated placement area—all without manual intervention or individual plant containers. A control unit processes the image data using machine learning or feature-matching techniques to locate roots and stems, enabling robust, species-adaptable identification.

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