HIGH-THROUGHPUT, MODULAR, PORTABLE, LIVE-IMAGING ROOT SYSTEM AND METHOD

Fecha de publicación: 16/01/2025
Fuente: WIPO "tomato"
A portable, modular plant monitoring system includes an imaging subsystem configured to acquire images of plural plants with a camera, an imaging actuation subsystem configured to support the imaging subsystem and to translate the imaging subsystem, a carousel system having a carousel configured to hold the plural plants in plural petri dishes, a carousel actuation subsystem configured to support the carousel system, to translate the carousel and to rotate the carousel, a support subsystem configured to hold the camera actuation subsystem and the carousel actuation subsystem, and a control subsystem configured to coordinate (1) a movement of the camera, (2) a linear movement and a rotation of the carousel, (3) image acquisition by the camera, and (4) image processing to detect a characteristic of the plural plants.