MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641024761 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on March 2, for 'an autonomous system for selective jasmine flower harvesting and grading.'
Inventor(s) include Devi. K; Benila. S; and Asha Jerlin M.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system 100 for harvesting matured jasmine flowers 302 includes a multi-axis robotic arm 112 including a soft gripper 114 configured for harvesting; a camera 104 to capture live images 106 of flowering jasmine plant 102; a mobile platform 108 including a driver unit 110 to move the platform 108 between plants 102 and irrigation lines; and a control unit 202 including one or more processors 204 to capture live images of flowered jasmine plant 102; identify mature jasmine flowers 302 from the captured images 106 using AI-based flower detection module 212; harvest identified jasmine flowers 302 through the multi-axis robotic arm 112; store all harvested jasmine flowers 302 in a container 116 for spreading on a grading platform; grade each flower 302 by analysing visual parameters using quality classification module 216; and log harvest data to estimate future jasmine flower 302 blooming cycles using AI supported predictive analytics models 218."
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