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Maggie Garvan Robot name : ?

Maggie Garvan Robot name : ?. 1/28/10. Summary of Talk. The Problem Objective of Robot Sensors Future work. Introduction: The problem. Landfills have lots of trash…. As can be seen  However not all of it is trash! (people don’t recycle)

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Maggie Garvan Robot name : ?

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  1. Maggie GarvanRobot name : ? 1/28/10

  2. Summary of Talk • The Problem • Objective of Robot • Sensors • Future work

  3. Introduction: The problem Landfills have lots of trash…. As can be seen  However not all of it is trash! (people don’t recycle) • Since 1970 Americans have thrown away over 16 million tons of aluminum cans (so wasteful) • 2 out of every three beverage containers are notrecycled in the United States

  4. Solution! Robot’s objective: Recycle! More specifically the robot will Search through “trash” and Pick up aluminum soda cans, Crush them and place/drop them in big blue.

  5. Sensors The robot needs to be able to find soda cans. This will be accomplished using a CMUcam1 to detect the color of the cans (red). Also IR for object avoidance.

  6. Future Work • Name Robot • Platform • Play with sensors • Get a more concrete idea of the design

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