. . . "Worcester Polytechnic Institute" . . "2020" . "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" . "This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review." . . "Calli, Berk" . "StudentWork" . "2020-08-21T22:33:05.595466443-04:00"^^ . "E-project-051720-235725" . "depositor@wpi.edu" . . "Fischler, Mikayla A." . "Kan, Arianna" . "Heavey, Kyle" . "2020-05-17" . . "Major Qualifying Project" . "Robotic Waste Sorting" . "Interdisciplinary" . "Robotics Engineering" . . "The recycling industry is struggling under tight profit margins, changing waste policies, and fast evolving waste market regulations. One notable issue is processing the highly contaminated single-stream recycling waste generated by the world’s growing population. This project contributes to the long-term goal of developing a waste-sorting robot to efficiently sort single-stream recyclables. We designed a robotic recycling test bed that consists of a robotic arm, an actuated X-Z Cartesian platform, and a modular control system. We also developed a three-jaw gripper designed for effective cardboard picking from a mixed waste stream. Such outcomes provide the main architecture for establishing a robotic waste sorting experimental setup at WPI." . . "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . . . . .