Developing an Automated System of Collecting Plastic Waste for Further Recycling

Abstract to the final work on the topic “Developing an Automated System of Collecting Plastic Waste for Further Recycling” Done by the student of NRU HSE Tikhonov MIEM education program “Infocommunication technologies and communication systems” Vladimir Lobach Sergeevich. Final qualifying work performed on the fifty-three sheets, consists of a title page, a table of contents, five chapters, a list of references, including twenty-two sources and seven applications. The work contains twenty-four illustrations and three tables. The object of the work is a single-board computer that has enough computational power and memory to create prototype projects on its basis. The purpose of this research work is the development of an automated plastic waste collection system. To achieve the goal, need a step by step solution of the set intermediate tasks: 1. Review and analysis of existing methods for collecting plastic bottles 2. Synthesis of the system of collecting and sorting plastic bottles 3. Review, analysis and selection of the necessary and available components for the implementation of the project 4. Creating a waste sorting algorithm 5. Implementation of the prototype To solve the tasks in the thesis work, the following methods were used: • Techniques for finding technical solutions • Practical method • Logical method - review, analytics, synthesis, comparison and data processing of the sources used The result of the thesis is a working prototype of an automated system for collecting and sorting plastic containers. To achieve the result, two projects were combined: the creation of a convolutional neural network of deep learning for image classification, work with a single-board computer and a modular camera for collecting and processing information. The results of this work can be used to improve the automated system for collecting and sorting waste.