Research on Autonomous Water Surface Garbage Detection and Cleaning Robot Based on YOLO v8 Multi-scale Feature Fusion
Pan Wei  Wu Qisheng

School of Computer and Information Engineering Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology, Harbin, 150001;

Abstract: With the economic development and the improvement of people's living standards, the number of artificial lakes is increasing year by year, in recent years, due to the floating garbage on the water surface caused by many water odors, eutrophication and other problems, seriously affecting the water ecological environment and human living environment. At present, the recycling of surface garbage is still mainly based on manual salvage and cleaning by large cleaning vessels, which consumes a lot of energy and has low efficiency. In this regard, we propose a design scheme of water surface cleaning robot based on YOLO V8 vision algorithm. The robot has the functions of intelligent recognition and automatic cruise, which greatly improves the automation and intelligence of surface garbage cleaning. The robot uses the YOLO V8 vision algorithm to collect images of water surface garbage and do image processing, and automatically clean up the garbage after identification. And in the absence of manual control, the robot can also automatically scan and clean garbage in a "carpet" manner across the entire water surface, so as to realize the all-weather unattended salvage operation of surface garbage. By optimizing the mechanical structure and power system, using the missile-type buoy as the catamaran structure to reduce the water resistance, and using solar cells to directly supply energy, the working energy consumption can be reduced and its endurance can be improved. The design overcomes the shortcomings of low efficiency of manual salvage method and large size, high cost and limited working area of cleaning boat, and is fully suitable for the cleaning of garbage in small waters, which is in line with the concepts of "green environmental protection", "resource utilization" and "sustainable development", and has good application prospects and promotion value.

Keywords:Surface Garbage; Intelligent Identification; Automatic Cruise; Remote Monitoring

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