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Abstract - Canals and rivers flowing through the cities and this component scoops the water in continuous pattern when
villages plays very important role in the life of human beings trash is detected it gets trapped in scoopers and is collected
and animals, these are used as flood discharge and pollution in thecollection box [3]. Second type of collecting hardware
discharge gateways. Now a days huge amounts of trash such as used is a belt with steel rods, to which hooks are attached and
plastic waste, tree branches and harmful materials like e-waste
it traps garbage, which comes in contact with these hooks [4].
also deposits in the water with rainwater. Often, manual
cleaning is using to get rid of this garbage. This situation is Third type of collection hardware corresponds to a conveyor
undesirable since it can harm to health of the people who ingest belt with some partitions in it; trash that is trapped in these
that water and affects the health of the trash pickup operators. partitions is collected in the collection box [5]. In expansible
The proposed marine trash collector used to clean small lakes, surface waste cleaning robot propulsion, motor is used as
rivers, and drainages. The designed marine trash collector is actuator; this type of actuation system consumes more power
automated, portable and able to collect the solid-state floating just to move body of the robot [6]. Twin-blade rotors are used
waste on water. The system was designed with Blender software, in small scale under water drone based on a twin rotor system
a 3D design software. An automated marine trash collector [7]. This BLDC motor can drive relevantly high load when
collects garbage from small streams and is very useful for
compared to servomotor yet utilizing less power. We can also
garbage collectingworkers.
use water jet to move the body of our robot and it can also
Key words: Marine Trash, E-waste, portable, small streams, drive high loads but it utilizes more energy and is very hard
Blender software. to control the direction of the robot so it is not preferable in
small stream applications [8]. By using different
I. INTRODUCTION microcontrollers like smart drive Duo-30 configure by using
t6 configuresoftware [4], Raspberry pi is also used for video
Canals and rivers flowing through the cities and villages and audio processing in trash collector[6], AT895s2 is also
plays very important role in the life of human beings and used for controlling the marine trash [10]. By studying above
animals, these are used as flood discharge and pollution all existing methods, the method, which is going to proposed,
discharge gateways. In normal days some waste enters the is easy to develop by using Arduino. The programming in
canals due to discharge of plastic waste and tree branches Aurdino is also easy and user friendly, efficient, affordable
which causes the pollution of water. In automated marine and portable. Which is automated also whenever trash is
trash collector, Hirdy Othman et al discussed how to collect presented it automatically suck in the bag.
the trash from the marine with steel body [1], in this body of
the collector is heavy. This floating trash is mixed of plastic II. DESIGN OF AUTOMATED MARINE TRASH COLLECTOR
bottles, plastic bags, branches, leaves and animal carcasses, .
62% of this trash is plastic. The species affected by the The proposed marine trash collector comprises the most
harmful trash in water is 453, a twenty-one percent increase feasible and most compatible methods from listed literature.
in science 2012[2]. This harm full plastic waste not only This device contains a partitioned conveyer belt as a
effects the water animals and the people who utilizes that Collection Mechanism,as described above this conveyor belt
water for drinking purpose. Sometimes this harmful waste is has some partitions in it, trash that is trapped in these
collected by manually; the persons who went to collect the partitions is collected in the collection net. It uses Arduino
waste are also facing the health issues due to hazardous gases Uno as acontroller, this controller has a unique approach as a
coming from the waste. So it is very much required to controller, it is less cost and works on less power this
replace the manually collected trash process with controller has its own IDE provided by its manufacturer and
automated marine trash collector. its open for everyone. Proposed system is highly
economically feasible.
A. Existing Models
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It uses very cost effective parts and uses a compact Figure 2. Wire Frame of Float
battery with low power consumption. Marine trash collector
is very simple to design as it uses less components like RC The Fabrication of the body is done through 3D printing;
transmitter, receiver, Arduino Uno, ultrasonic sensor, esc additive manufacturing or 3D is a process of making three-
and l23d motor drivers, which are shown in fig 1, which are dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The 3D printed
easy to handle. This device is quite simple to operate and can body is shown in fig 3. The process of printing in 3D is a
be controlled from the shore, the commands are given froma additive process, layers are laying down until the object is
remote transmitter which controls the body accordingto the created.
user commands. The collection mechanism is an automated
process as it detects the trash in betweenfloats and starts
collection.
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7 34 21 [10] CHEN Su, WANG Dongxing, LIU Tiansong, REN Weichong and
ZHONG Yachao “An Autonomous Ship for Cleaning the Garbage
8 34 20 Floating on a Lake” Second International Conference on Intelligent
Computation Technology and Automation” 2009, DOI:
9 34 19 10.1109/ICICTA.2009.579.
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V. CONCLUSION
VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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