Toward City-Scale Litter Monitoring Using Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Littering is a significant challenge for environmental sustainability and major burden cities densely populated areas. Current solutions litter monitoring, such as watch campaigns city-operated collection, are costly challenging to conduct at large scale. This article presents vision using autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) monitoring removal introduces mechanism AGVs that uses thermal dissipation resulting from sunlight identify remove objects. We highlight key challenges deploying the envisioned solution on city scale, demonstrate feasibility of through extensive experiments.