Patent ID: 11896003
Assignee: MINERAL EARTH SCIENCES LLC
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 12:
13. A method implemented by one or more processors of one or more robots, the method comprising:
in an agricultural area that includes a plurality of plants each extending through an aperture in a synthetic mulch that is disposed over the agricultural area and that includes a plurality of fiducial markings configured to detect one or more properties of soil of the agricultural area and that are detectable by a robot, causing the one or more robots to identify each of the plurality of fiducial markings in the agricultural area and to generate, via one or more of the processors, correspondence data that correlates each plant of the plurality of plants to one or more of the plurality of fiducial markings;
wherein the correspondence data enables one or more of the robots to subsequently navigate through the agricultural area to locate a particular plant of the plurality of plants and perform an operation in furtherance of affecting a physical condition of the particular plant.