Description du projet
Un robot volant pour lutter contre la pollution de l’eau par le plastique
Le changement climatique a de graves répercussions sur le monde, tirant la sonnette d’alarme des nations et des organisations et les exhortant à prendre les mesures qui s’imposent. L’une de ces mesures consiste à financer des solutions innovantes qui luttent contre les causes du changement climatique. La pollution par le plastique est un problème environnemental complexe qui touche les cours d’eau, les océans et les lacs du monde entier, mais contre lequel aucune solution efficace n’a encore été trouvée. Le projet Flyflic, financé par l’UE, entend changer la donne en développant un nouveau robot volant conçu pour ramasser les déchets flottants, en particulier dans les cours d’eau, qui sera capable de surmonter la plupart des obstacles qui entravent le fonctionnement des solutions de pointe actuelles.
Objectif
Plastic pollution is considered one of the most challenging environmental risks globally, and rivers have been identified as a dominant pathway for the accumulation of plastic in the oceans. The Flyflic (FLYing companion for Floating LItter Collection) project addresses this global challenge by deploying a first-of-its-kind robotic platform composed of multiple unmanned aerial robots to effectively collect litter from rivers and canals, thus preventing such litter from reaching our oceans. Chiara Gabellieri will carry out the Flyflic project under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Franchi at the University of Twente (UT), The Netherlands. The project contributes to European strategic priorities (Horizon Europe Mission on healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters) and global strategic priorities (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). Compared to state-of-the-art solutions, which are boat-like robots or fixed trapping mechanisms, a flying platform can target desired spots, can easily discharge the collected litter, is low cost, and is not hindered by non-navigable spots such as dams and low bridges. The general vision of the Flyflic project will be accomplished through four specific objectives: a novel prototype composed of two physically connected aerial robots and a net to be dragged in the water to collect the litter will be assembled; the dynamic model of the complex manipulation aerial system embedding the water-related disturbances will be computed and a model-based control law designed accordingly; all the components for autonomous functioning will be integrated, especially the control law and state-of-the-art algorithms for object recognition and trajectory generation; finally, a user interface will be created to let a human monitor the task execution and possibly select actions, and the cooperative human-robot discharge of the litter will be made possible through the design of an advanced physical interaction control algorithm.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinateur
7522 NB Enschede
Pays-Bas