US 11,703,404 B2
Device for automated crop root sampling
John Keith McKay, Fort Collins, CO (US); Caleb Andrew Alvarado, Fort Collins, CO (US); Guy R. Babbitt, Fort Collins, CO (US); Kyle Joseph Palmiscno, Loveland, CO (US); Christopher Wayne Turner, Windsor, CO (US); and Bryce Conrad Whitehill, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Filed by Colorado State University Research Foundation, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/904,195.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/862,449, filed on Jun. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0400518 A1, Dec. 24, 2020
Int. Cl. G01L 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 15/02 (2006.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); A01D 25/04 (2006.01); A01D 27/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/02 (2006.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01)
CPC G01L 5/0033 (2013.01) [A01D 25/042 (2013.01); A01D 27/02 (2013.01); B25J 9/023 (2013.01); B25J 13/085 (2013.01); B25J 15/0033 (2013.01); B25J 15/0253 (2013.01); B25J 19/023 (2013.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for measuring the root pulling force of a plant, comprising an X-axis actuator, a Y-axis actuator, a Z-axis actuator, and a plant grasping mechanism having plates,
wherein the X-axis actuator is perpendicular to the plane formed by the Y-axis actuator and the Z-axis actuator,
wherein the plates of the plant grasping mechanism are oriented approximately parallel to the plane formed by the Y-axis actuator and the Z-axis actuator.