Trashinator
A robot that picks up trash
For my Advanced Autonomous Machines class (16.84), a senior seminar dedicated to building a robot of our choice, we built a robot that can detect and pick up trash using the Clearpath jackal robot. I was on the perpection team and the motion planning team.
The diagram below shows how the robot’s pipeline turns a detection into a pickup.
Figure: how a detection becomes a pickup — perception locates the trash, motion planning drives the Jackal to it, and the pickup stage collects it.
