Robust and Efficient Autonomous Trash Cleaning Robot: A Novel Approach with Image Recognition Techniques

Computer Science and Engineering

“Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan” is a national campaign initiated by the Government of India, which covers 4,041 cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. The main motto of the mission is to cover all the rural and urban areas of the country. With increase in population, the scenario of cleanliness with respect to garbage management is degrading tremendously. The overflow of garbage in public areas creates the unhygienic condition in the nearby surrounding. It may provoke several serious diseases amongst the nearby people. It also degrades the valuation of the area. To avoid this and to enhance the cleaning, ‘smart robotic dustbin’ is proposed in this paper. The proposed automated robotic dustbin can sense human being approaching towards it and opens the upper lid and alerts the user to use the dustbin. If the waste falls outside the dustbin it can sense and alert the user. The camera fitted above the dustbin captures the image in front and send to the server for processing. If garbage detected send instruction to the robotic bin to start the vacuum cleaner.

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