Roadside trash on highway medians causes significant environmental and economic harm in the United States. While prevention and public awareness remain the best long-term solutions, current methods of cleaning up existing litter are ineffective, dangerous, and expensive. Although ground robots have been successful at collecting trash in other conditions, the inaccessible and uneven terrain of highway medians is better suited for an autonomous aerial system. The Terrawarden drone, a one-meter-wide quadrotor with a 3-DOF manipulator and compliant gripper, addresses the problem of roadside litter by autonomously detecting and retrieving trash using on-board perception. To validate the feasibility of this approach, a controlled experiment was designed in which the drone was tasked with detecting a beverage container, navigating to it, collecting it without landing, and then transporting it to a designated collection point. The drone successfully completed each of these tasks, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed system and its potential for future research and deployment.
Terrawarden Drone Cleanup MQP
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