Project Description:

Plastic contamination in natural ecosystems reduces biodiversity because of accidental ingestion and entanglement by wildlife. The removal of this waste is an unsolved problem because of the big surfaces of these ecosystems, the diversity of the plastics to be handled and the continuous consumption of tons of plastics that go everyday to nature. In fact, traditional cleanup techniques are not able to handle all these dimensions and a change in the applied technologies and methodologies becomes a must. This project proposes to design and implement a team of mobile manipulators that clean efficiently and with low cost these environments.

Name:  Juan Antonio Corrales Ramón

Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela

Contact data:  juanantonio.corrales@usc.es

Profile of the coordinating researcher:
Postdoc 

Type of intended collaboration:
associate professor

Intended number of partners: 2-10

Intended profiles of collaborators:
Researchers could work in the research lines proposed before; companies will supply their expertise on similar existents systems or their integration/commercialization; local/regional bodies will support the application of these systems in their environment.

Arena(s): EUniWell Seed Funding