Plastic Sorting Machine
Identifies plastics by their spectral signature and sorts them with delta robots — including the black plastics conventional near-infrared sorting is blind to.
- Semester
- 04
- Spectrum
- 380–1740 nm
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Aalborg University · Problem Based Learning
Dedicated to strong teamwork and real-life problem solving through the Problem Based Learning model — taking projects from analysis and calculation through to a working prototype.
Selected work
Each project runs the full route: problem analysis, calculation, design, and manufacture or implementation.
Identifies plastics by their spectral signature and sorts them with delta robots — including the black plastics conventional near-infrared sorting is blind to.
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Capabilities
Open to internships & collaboration
If you have an engineering problem worth solving, I'd like to hear about it.