Samueli School of Engineering

Background:  Goal statement: The goal of this project is to design, fabricate, and program a fully automated trash collection robot.

Introduction - We aim to create a mobile autonomous robot arm that can help clean up our environment one can at a time. Our arm utilizes cameras to help detect and navigate toward an object of interest (soda can, bottles, etc.).  Once our arm reaches the object, it will proceed to collect and dispose of the item in question.

Faculty Adviser:  Dr. G.P. Li, Professor, INRF, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Director, CALIT2, CALIT2, Director; Linya Xia