Patent ID: 11858145
Assignee: GRAIN WEEVIL CORPORATION
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  A | IPC B

Claim 8:
9. A method of piled grain surface management, the method comprising:
receiving at a robot, instructions to traverse a surface of piled grain in a bulk store;
controlling, by a processor according to the instructions, movement of the robot via bilateral augers of an auger-based drive system to traverse about the surface of the piled grain in the bulk store, wherein a crust layer of the surface is broken up by auger rotation of the bilateral augers of the auger-based drive system during the traversal; and
directing, by the processor according to the instructions, traversal by the robot of a sloped portion of the piled grain to incite sediment gravity flow in the sloped portion of the piled grain by disruption of viscosity of the sloped portion of the piled grain through agitation of the sloped portion of the piled grain by the auger rotation of the auger-based drive system, wherein the sediment gravity flow reduces a slope of the sloped portion.