MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621106051 A) filed by Lnct University on September 03, 2026, for System And Method For Counterfactual, Constraint-Based Vegetable Canopy Control.
Inventor includes Dr. Hradesh Shivhare.
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUNTERFACTUAL, CONSTRAINT-BASED VEGETABLE CANOPY CONTROL The present invention provides a system and method for counterfactual, constraint-based control of a vegetable canopy using artificial intelligence. Colour and depth image data are spatially registered with environmental measurements to generate a three-dimensional plant-organ graph and spatial canopy-field values representing light interception, ventilation, humidity retention and fruit exposure. Multiple alternative pruning or training actions are virtually applied to the plant-organ graph to predict respective canopy responses before plant modification. A controller rejects actions violating protected-organ, crop-load, minimum leaf-area, removable leaf-area or cumulative pruning- dose constraints, and selects a feasible action according to a crop-specific objective. The selected action is issued as a spatially referenced instruction or executed by a robotic manipulator. Post-action imagery is registered with the plant-organ graph to measure the actual canopy response. A prediction error between predicted and measured responses causes acceptance, model recalibration or generation of a corrective action, thereby providing closed-loop, physiologically constrained canopy management.
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