Design, Control, And Development Of An Intelligent Of Waste Sorting System With A Robotic Arm

Thu Ha Vo; Than Thi Thuong; Thanh Ha Vo

doi:10.6180/jase.202309_26(9).0014

Design, Control, And Development Of An Intelligent Of Waste Sorting System With A Robotic Arm

Vo Thu Ha¹, Than Thi Thuong¹, and Vo Thanh Ha This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.²

¹Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Economics - Technology for Industries, Vietnam
²Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Transport and Communications, No. 3 Cau Giay Street, Lang Thuong Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi, Vietnam

Received: July 7, 2022
Accepted: November 5, 2022
Publication Date: December 19, 2022

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ABSTRACT

The paper has presented the control and development of an intelligent garbage sorting system with a robot arm. This system consists of a machine vision block, a 6DOF robot manipulator, and a control unit for sorting garbage based on analytical images. YOLOv4 software will be identified the object by the neural network. This method is used for detecting and image recognition of different sizes and types of waste, such as paper-based garbage, metal garbage, and plastic garbage. The results of offline testing on a database of more than 600 untrained images show that the trained model has an average accuracy of about 98.43% for classifying different types of garbage.

Keywords: Waste Sorting, Robotic Arm, YOLO, Machine Vision, 6DOF

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