MUMBAI, India, Sept. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611104889 A) filed by Panipat Institute Of Engineering And Technology Piet on August 31, 2026, for Autonomous Robotic System For Explainable Artificial Intelligence Based Detection And Management Of Citrus Diseases.
Inventors include Prof. Dr. Poonam Panwar; Dr. Manju Sardana; Ansh Wadhwa; Mr. Manwar Singh; Prof. Dr. Satish Kumar; Lakshya Partap Rana; Dr. Gurjeet Kaur; and Ms. Shapali Bansal.
The application for the patent was published on September 11, 2026, under issue no. 37/2026.
Abstract: The present invention discloses an autonomous robotic system for detection and management of citrus diseases. The system comprises an orchard-traversing mobile platform, an adjustable-height imaging assembly for acquiring RGB and/or multispectral images from multiple canopy levels, environmental and soil sensors, navigation and obstacle-detection sensors, an onboard computing unit, a wireless communication module and a power-management arrangement. The onboard computing unit processes multimodal field data and executes a trained disease-detection model to identify plant-health abnormalities. An explainability module generates information indicating image regions, symptom characteristics or feature contributions associated with a diagnostic output. Selected images, sensor records, location information and diagnostic data are communicated to a remote computing platform for storage, disease mapping, trend analysis, alerts and decision-support information. Edge processing permits continued field-level analysis when continuous remote connectivity is unavailable, while adjustable-height imaging facilitates inspection of lower, internal and upper canopy regions. Accompanied Drawing [FIG. 1]
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