| Presentation | 2011-05-20 LRF for the visually impaired with a walking support system for obstacle detection step Shinya GOTO, Kentaro WATANABE, Hideki TODA, Capi GENCI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | According to the Japanese Ministry of Health there are about 310,000 visually impaired people. Here, we propose a new robotic system to assist visually impaired people in unknown indoor and outdoor environments. The robotic system, which is equipped with a visual sensor, laser range finders, speaker, gives visually impaired people information about the environment around them. The laser data are analyzed using the clustering technique, making it possible to detect obstacles, steps and stairs. By using the visual sensor, the system is able to distinguish between objects and humans. The PC analyses the sensors data and send information to the visually impaired people by natural language or beep signal. The usefulness of the proposed system is examined experimentally. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Visually Impaired people / robotic assisting device / data processing |
| Paper # | MBE2011-8 |
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| Conference Date | 2011/5/13(1days) |
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| Registration To | ME and Bio Cybernetics (MBE) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | LRF for the visually impaired with a walking support system for obstacle detection step |
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| Keyword(1) | Visually Impaired people |
| Keyword(2) | robotic assisting device |
| Keyword(3) | data processing |
| 1st Author's Name | Shinya GOTO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering, Toyama University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Kentaro WATANABE |
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| 3rd Author's Name | Hideki TODA |
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| 4th Author's Name | Capi GENCI |
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| Date | 2011-05-20 |
| Paper # | MBE2011-8 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.111 |
| Number (no) | 57 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 4 |
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