Autotrash Collecting Boat

The paper presents the design and development of an autonomous boat with enhanced waste management capability. It is designed to collect trash efficiently from any water body, segregating it into biodegradable and non-biodegradable components. Some of the core functionalities include autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, waste detection, and collection by a specialized mechanism. It is a combination of computer vision and machine learning algorithms that will do real-time identification and sorting of wastes. Biodegradable waste collected could either be treated on board or taken to a land-based treatment facility. The non-biodegradable fraction is stored for proper disposal. This offers an opportunity for significantly reducing marine pollution and impacts on a cleaner and healthier aquatic environment.