High-Level Project Summary
The marine environment struggles every day with the tough challenges it fights against against man-made pollutants like microplastics,polythene,plastics that risks marine speices.So we want to make a bio-kraken shaped AUV which will hunt marine debris,floats and dives into the sea and ocean to sense the different types and sizes of plastic and determine where they are; collect and also determine their measurements in a quantitative way and send them coordinates to satellites, and from satellites to our vehicles to know all the details in order.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Marine plastic pollution breaks down into microplastics and contributes to climate change both through direct GHG emissions and indirectly by negatively affecting ocean organisms and climate .
- Over 300 million tons of plastic are produced every year for use in a wide variety of applications.
- At least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year, and plastic makes up 80% of all marine debris found from surface waters to deep-sea sediments.
- Marine species ingest or are entangled by plastic debris, which causes severe injuries and death.
- Plastic pollution threatens food safety and quality, human health, coastal tourism, and contributes to climate change.
- There is an urgent need to explore new and existing legally binding agreements to address marine plastic pollution.
Our project is about lessening ocean pollution. We are proposing an AUV model to solve this problem. This model can float,dive into on the water and at the same time, ıt can collect the floating trash in a chamber. There is also a system for leaving the extra water out.
Using IR,cv,open CV,object detection,image processing and others it can objectify microplastic,plastics . Vacuum method can be used to to collect;filter trash from surface water,bottom of surface,seabed . It contains arms to pick trash from bottom surface.There can be used ballon method to lift up from bottom surface ( as it will cost less energy) . Using solar enegry surface movement will be done . This bot will be fully autonomous but still it can be controlled by human,can be tracked from satellite
The AUV uses PyTorch, Yolo5 detection model to detect the marine plastics. We have trained the model along with the existing Yolo5 weights to extend the accuracy of the plastics which includes Polythenes and Bottles. We have used datasets from various open source projects and various Marine Debris Sites. Please visit the project link to see the Image Processing performance of the System
Demo Video :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyKCUCVi_dk
GITHUB :- https://github.com/mxTuhin/KrakenFlask
Final Video :-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIL7acvFmog
Debris Detection | With Flask | Upload to Heroku
This repo contains example apps for exposing the yolo5 object detection model from pytorch hub via a flask api/app.
Web app
This Yolo5 System detects Marine Debris. Uploaded to Heroku with Flask Visit
https://kraken-flask.herokuapp.com/
Drive Link :- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/181ecbKOCBuQdczqYcLbwt2VsI-uSS-oV?usp=sharing
Space Agency Data
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/esnt2021/scientists-use-nasa-satellite-data-to-track-ocean-microplastics-from-space
https://esc.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/Near-Space_Communications_Reimagined
Toxicological threats of plastic | EPA
MARINE DEBRIS FACTS I NOAA
Marine debris : Garbage patch Experiments | NOAA
Hackathon Journey
The hackathon trip was very interesting and informative, during which we were introduced to creative people from other nations who are passionate about space and everything related to computers,robotics,engineering. My team and I cooperated as if we had become one. We faced difficulties, but we overcame them, exchanged ideas, modified it and expressed our happiness with the opportunity to participate in this hackathon and to choose the challenge and the appropriate solutions for it.We learned and gained a lot of experience
References
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/esnt2021/scientists-use-nasa-satellite-data-to-track-ocean-microplastics-from-space
https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/marine-debris-garbage-patch-experiment-drifters-and-model/
http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-octopus-points-the-way-to-soft-robotics-with-eight-wiggly-arms
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-_zIGY5akgDpIz466ciEQs8lgM95XmR0Vk3VaX5fjag/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17aneJvfmtxVybfBi8a_O1sI48gAN-Ck9LLgr001SoqE/edit
Tags
#water #pollution #AI/ML #leveraging-aiml-for-plastic-marine-debris #seapollution#auv#model#hardware #climate #environment_pollution #globalPlasticPollution