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The use of garbage trucks with ârobot armsâ for municipal waste collection is becoming more and more common in Ontario and across North America. However, these ârobotsâ have very little capability. In our collaboration with Waterloo Controls, we are working to automate the process of garbage collection. Rather than requiring the operator to acquire the truck, then steer the robot arm to pick up the bin, we are working to add automatic capability. With our proposed solution, the system will automatically find the bin, automatically determine if it is safe to collect it (ie: there are no people or pets in the way), then automatically pick up the bin and dump it, with no more effort on the driverâs part than the push of a button. TO BE CONT”D
Kenneth McIsaac
Long Pham
Waterloo Controls Inc.
Engineering - computer / electrical
Management of companies and enterprises
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