A group of students have built a robotic garbage-sorting system using technology from B&R Industrial Automation.
At the international Smart Green Island Makeathon engineering competition, 13 students were given three days to build a functioning prototype that uses robots to sort garbage.
This year’s Makeathon in Gran Canaria was devoted to sustainability.
Austrian automation specialist B&R supported an interdisciplinary team of students from Brno University of Technology, Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Technical University of Ostrava, the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
To help with the project implementation, students were provided with software and hardware from B&R as well as 3D-printed robots that the Kempten University of Applied Sciences had developed themselves and brought to the event.
Using a B&R controller, the finished solution comprises three different types of robots that sort garbage using a variety of sensors.
OPC UA was used as the central communication protocol.
Professor Dirk Jakob, one of the supervisors of the team from Kempten University of Applied Sciences, said: “It was quite a challenge, but we are proud that our team was able to develop the garbage sorting machine and get it running in such a short time.”
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