Recycle AI self-made recycling robot equipped with Raspberry Pi that automatically identifies and separates garbage when putting garbage

Separation of garbage is somewhat confusing as human beings can make mistakes, everyone should have experienced lost that "This is what garbage ...?" A person who made a self-made sorting system that artificial intelligence automatically performs separation of such troublesome waste appeared.

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You can see how the separation system actually operates from the following movies.

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Three trash boxes are lining up, which is different from the separation of garbage in Japan, but from the left"Recycling garbage" "Landfill waste" "Compost garbage"It is said that it is a sort of separation.


There is a tray on the trash can, and putting garbage ......


The camera identifies the type of garbage and separates it into an appropriate garbage can.



The recycle bin of "compost garbage" is a little away from the tray ... ....


Since the tray can move with rails, it seems that it can be separated without problems.


Garbage placed on the tray is sent to the separation AI through the cloud and used for learning.


I put a thing that is difficult to distinguish as "scissors" on the tray.


Although AI sorted it into "landfill waste", you can see that the "kitchen scissors are pretty highly accurate judgment" that metal and plastic are mixed in "landfill waste".


To construct this sorting system, Google's machine learning system "TensorflowAnd ...


Single Board Computer's "Raspberry Pi 3"


From Raspberry Pi 3 it is connected to the board on which motors, drivers and LEDs are installed ......


From there it is connected to a "linear actuator" which changes the motor's rotation to linear motion.


"PiCamera" identifies the garbage placed on the tray.


It seems that the identified images are stored more and more and are becoming smarter enough to separate garbage as follows.