im looking at a project where i small vehicle size aprox 2foot square will drive round my garden scan the ground for new debris ie dog poo and scoop it up. it will be on a hard patio area where my dogs always poo. this will pick up the poo and store it to be binned.
could arduino be made to do something like this. im thinking taking pics of ground and if diferant than last pick pick it up.
so a cam or sensor of some sort and the hardwhere i can build. then intergrate this idea in to the build of the robot.
Having a camera look at an area to determine an image change of the patio, the position of the image change can be determined then have the poopie collector go get the poopies. Machine Learning using KNN would do this job easily and can be run on a 32 bit microcontroller.
Oi! So you can detect "dog" then search for "poo" after seeing dog. Thus no searching for poo till after dog.
Oh, and such a system can tell you when someone is there and if something is missing after the someone is there has left. I'm doing something similar with some of my equipment I leave outside.