Patents Assigned to Kansas Stte University Research Foundation
  • Autonomous robot system for steep terrain farming operations
    Patent number: 11856882
    Abstract: An autonomous farming system (26) comprising one or more ground-based drones (10) and one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (12), whose routes through a field are optimized by an autonomous farming control system (30) that utilizes linearly constrained integer quadratic programming. The farming system (26) is particularly suited for farming steep terrain that is not accessible to conventional farming equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kansas Stte University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Sanjoy Das, Daniel Flippo, Stephen M. Welch