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We are Team A-R-E

Applying an Automated Tray Sorting System to

Reduce Food Waste in Hong Kong Canteens through Robotics & AI

Our Team.

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Dawoo Yoon

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Angela

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Quinton Yu

Our Mission

"Design and deploy an AI-powered robotic sorting system that automatically separates food waste, general trash, and reusable dishes from canteen trays — eliminating the dependence on manual separation and enabling downstream recycling at scale."

The Solution

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  • Using pi 0.5 VLA model to control the 7 axi robotics arm to grab trash, food waste and plate

Subsystem

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Motion Learning

Eye-in-hand camera

Coordinate tracking

Object-level control

Adaptive grasping

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Robotic arm

Franka Research 3

7 axis robotic arms

3 kg payload

855mm reach

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Vision-Action-Language model

Pi 0.5

Physical intelligence

Convert AI digital data to physical motion

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Simulation

Isaac Sim

560 sim runs

6 bin layouts

Randomized objects

Time modeling

Final Output

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AI control video 

100 samples

Tissue grabbing 

100 samples

Cup collecting 

50+ samples

Bowl collecting

ISDN2001/2002: Second Year Design Project

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