Developing an Intelligent Waste Sorting System with Robotic Arm: A Step towards Green Environment

Abstract

Waste management as well as sorting is a very crucial task to make the environment green and to ensure better (re)use of the resources. Bangladesh, because of its high density population, is facing enormous challenges to manage huge amount of wastes produced every day. So the purpose of this paper is to use the advancement of Information and Communication technology (ICT) to improve the waste management system and make lives better by providing a smarter way for waste sorting and management. In this paper, an intelligent system was proposed and developed for automatically sorting the waste to be used in context of Bangladesh. A light weighted experiment was carried out to evaluate the system performance. The experiment replicated with 11 objects (waste) of different size and types. The experimental results showed that the proposed system was reliable and achieved about 82% accuracy for the categorization of different kinds of waste.