Autonomous Amphibious Robot Group

Amphibitrons Team

Sarika Karri

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Shravan Kandlakunta

Problem

Chicago River

Autonomous Amphibious Robot

Trash Collecting Silos + Compactor

Battery

Solar Panels

Trash Bot

Velox Robot + GPS Module

Trash Bot

• Paddle conveyor belt picks up material from water body into the metal box equipped with camera
• Material scanned and sorted
• Sorted according to type:
• Living beings returned to water body
• Trash separated from recyclable
• Trash and Recyclables put into designated silo

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Silos and Compactor

• Silos receive trash from an opening on the side
• Piston compactor sits at the top of the silo
• Compact occurs every 30 min
• In the case the silo is full, robot routes way back to trash disposal site

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App Tracker for AAR Units

• Shows location of all units
• Allows designation of:
• Water bodies to be cleaned
• Waste drop off location
• Allows tracking of battery level of units and maintenance

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Current Industry

Jellyfish Bot

Mr. Trash Wheel

Business Plan

Overall Business Plan

Target Customer Reach

Cost Breakdown

Proposed Unit Cost (Material cost plus 20% profit markup):

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$20,000

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Timeline

Questions?

Foreseen Risks and Mitigations

• Potential problems from partnering with Velox Robot and Trash Bot
• Mitigation: Well worded contracts

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Product Overview

• Amphibious robot that collects trash from any body of water
• Sorted based on whether the item can be recycled or not
• Using machine learning model on raspberry pi with camera
• Allow for living organism detection and safe release
• Robot will be tasked with combing and cleaning a specified location.
• Once storage containers are full, the robot journeys back to the drop off point.
• When trash is dropped off, waste management services would need to collect and process it.

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App/Product Images / In-depth Description

• Battery powered robot with undulating fins for movement on land and water (amphibious velox)
• Body built with Marine steel to resist saltwater damage and promote durability
• Water wheel with slotted paddles used to pick up trash in front of robot
• Trash is scanned and sorted depending on outcome
• Trash waits on a platform that is separated in the middle, after sorting analysis is made, the corresponding side of the platform would raise (hinged at bottom), sending trash into the proper storage container (entry port is on side).
• Sensors will be placed in each silo to detect trash level
• Pistons, housed above the entry port on the storage container will come down to compact trash (entry port will close at this time)
• If this doesn’t have any effect, the robot is signaled to journey to the drop off point.
• GPS tracker will be on each robot

App/Product Images / In-depth Description 2

• App can be used to track robots as well as assign them chunks of river/beach to clean.
• This can be done by providing a starting point latitude and longitude, and ending point latitude and longitude.
• The robot’s autonomous directional software must be quick to respond to obstacles.
• Land can be used as boundaries for the robot to zigzag between while cleaning trash from the specified starting and ending points.
• Drop off point must be specified too.
• Drop off point must be close to area of cleaning, as travel across long distances and through cities is not feasible
• Robot will drop off trash via dump truck mechanism
• Container bottom would slide to the side

Business Plan

• Experimental, developmental, or research work performed under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract – 15% of estimated contract costs�All other cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts – 10% of estimated contract costs
• Manufacture and sell fleets of robots to target consumers, costing anywhere from 5000$ - 7000$.
• Primarily national governments
• Immense research and prototyping must be done before this can happen.
• Approximately 10 years.
• Robots would be sold at a 15% mark up from the labor and materials used to manufacture them.
• Initially funding and sponsors would be sought out for the research step.
• Sell trash sorter system as a household appliance, costing around 60$
• Slight upcharge from the materials used to manufacture it.
• Research and development may take a year and a half to roll out an efficient product.
• 20 years down the line, plans for building recycling plants specific for robot drop off, maintenance, and recharge can be implemented.
• Overall creating more jobs down the line.