| Presentation | 1994/5/27 An improved,GPS Location Guldance System for visually Impaired Koichi Yamakura, Hideo Makino, Ikuo Ishii, Makoto Nakashizuka, |
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| Abstract(in English) | We are researching a location guidance method that offers location information to the visually impaired using a portable GPS(Global Positioning System)receiver system.Tested within the Niigata University campus,the original system developed three years ago,with only on GPS receiver and speech synthesizer output, gave maximum average errors of 64 m to the location.For the improved system,reported in the paper,we combined a magnetic azimuth sensor with the GPS sensor in the original system to reduce the error to the nearest orthogonally intersecting road. Using circular search,direction correction and movement estimation, the maximum average error was reduced to 46 m.This paper describes the measuring method and experiment results. |
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| Keyword(in English) | location guidance / visually impaired / GPS / magnetic azimuth sensor / portable |
| Paper # | MBE94-16 |
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| Conference Date | 1994/5/27(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | An improved,GPS Location Guldance System for visually Impaired |
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| Keyword(1) | location guidance |
| Keyword(2) | visually impaired |
| Keyword(3) | GPS |
| Keyword(4) | magnetic azimuth sensor |
| Keyword(5) | portable |
| 1st Author's Name | Koichi Yamakura |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering,Niigata University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hideo Makino |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering,Niigata University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Ikuo Ishii |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering,Niigata University |
| 4th Author's Name | Makoto Nakashizuka |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering,Niigata University |
| Date | 1994/5/27 |
| Paper # | MBE94-16 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.94 |
| Number (no) | 80 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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