Patent ID: 11856882
Assignee: KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  B | IPC A  B  G

Claim 9:
10. A system for autonomous farming comprising:
at least one ground-based drone;
at least one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to service the at least one drone; and
an autonomous farming control system comprising a processor and wireless communication equipment configured to permit communication between the at least one ground-based drone and/or the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle and/or the autonomous farming control system,
the autonomous farming control system being configured to—
a) receive information regarding the topography of a field of arable land to be farmed and at least one physical parameter associated with the at least one drone and the at least one UAV,
b) receive information from the at least one drone and the at least one UAV regarding at least one of an amount of energy used and an amount of time taken by the at least one drone and the at least one UAV to traverse between at least two planting sites,
c) use linearly constrained integer quadratic programming to generate a time and/or energy optimized route plan for the at least one drone and the at least one UAV within the field, and
d) transmit the optimized route plan to the at least one drone and the at least one UAV using the wireless communication equipment.