Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : July 18, 2024
Due to the development of automation technology in the Department of Waste Management and Recycling, robots are now being deployed in recycling factories and replaced a part of workforce. However, to implement the robots, factories need to spend a large amount of cost on creating a robot included line. This study creates an automatic sorting robot for beverage containers, designed for implementation within limited spaces and specify the challenges of robot development with real-scale sorting experiments. As a result, our robot successfully separates beverage containers into eight specific categories: PET (clear), PET (data shortage), PET (rest), PET (coffee), clear glass, brown glass, green glass, and cans from mix. The challenges to improving the robot’s ability are declared as improving the AI’s accuracy and robot’s control system, and developing conveyer belt to stabilise the container’s position.
