"Eco-Robot": A Metal and Non-Metal Garbage Segregation Robot Arm

Eco-Robot: A Garbage Segregation Robot Arm” involves cybernetics that intends to provide physical assistance to the community in promoting and facilitating ecological trash management in which it determines and sort garbage materials, segregating metallic garbage to nonmetallic ones. The Robot Arm has four (4) degrees of freedom (DOF) and is capable of detecting metal, tin and aluminum wastes made possible by distance and inductive sensors. Distance sensor is the one responsible for the detection of objects that are passing through the conveyor. Once it senses an object, the conveyor will pause and the robotic arm will then grab the object. Once the object is grabbed, the inductive sensor will then come into play by distinguishing if the grabbed object is metal, tin or aluminum. Once the garbage is distinguished the robotic arm will now place the grabbed garbage into their designated bin. Metal, tins and aluminum will be placed into “Metallic Bin” and the rest will be placed into the “Non-Metallic Bin”. The proponents used an open source Arduino Microcontroller Unit (MCU) to be the system’s manipulator. The MCU is programmed through the Arduino IDE, an open-source electronic prototyping platform written in Java that also comes with C and C++ libraries. This research utilizes evolutionary prototyping methodology which includes analysis, design, development, prototype testing and revisions.