EcoBoat：水域清掃のための自律型ボディボードボートの設計と実験的検証
EcoBoat: Design and Experimental Validation of an Autonomous Body-Board Boat For Cleaning Water Bodies
低コストな自律型水上ロボットEcoBoatを開発し、屋内では超音波センサーとランダムウォーク、屋外ではGPSジオフェンスを用いて浮遊ゴミを回収できることを実証した。
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著者: M. Aman Ansari, Saifullah Khan, Rahul Kulkarni, PB Sujit
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Cleaning water bodies such as swimming pools and lakes typically demands significant manual effort or reliance on costly, sensor-intensive robotic systems. This paper presents EcoBoat, a low-cost autonomous surface vehicle built on a modified hull, designed to collect floating debris in both indoor and outdoor water bodies. For indoor environments, EcoBoat uses ultrasonic sensors to detect boundaries and obstacles, combining random-walk motion with boundary-following behavior. For outdoor environments, it relies on GPS-based geofencing paired with a random-walk strategy for area coverage. A key design feature is a Tesla-valve-inspired collection basket that allows debris intake during forward motion while preventing its escape during turning or braking. Field experiments in pools and lakes validated the design through iterative refinement, demonstrating that a minimalist sensing and computation approach can achieve effective, versatile debris collection across diverse water bodies.