The Development of a pedestrian navigation aid for the blind

Author

Bousbia-salah, Mounir ; Fezari, Mohamed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Lab. of Autom. & Signals-Annaba, Annaba, Algeria

fYear

2006

fDate

20-22 March 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

An Electronic Travel Aid is a form of assistive technology having the purpose of enhancing mobility for blind individuals. This paper examines a pedestrian navigation system for the Blind, which is based on a microcontroller with synthetic speech output. This aid is a portable, self contained system that will allow blind people to travel without the assistance of guides. It is designed for a battery-powered portable model. In addition, it is focused on low power consumption, small size, lightweight, and easy manipulation. The proposed system provides information to the user about urban walking routes using spoken words to indicate what decisions to make.

Keywords

decision making; handicapped aids; microcontrollers; navigation; power consumption; speech synthesis; traffic engineering computing; vision defects; assistive technology; battery-powered portable model; blind assistive aid; decisions making; electronic travel aid; information system; microcontroller; pedestrian navigation aid; power consumption; speech synthesis; urban walking routes; Accelerometers; Global Positioning System; Microcontrollers; Speech; Switches; Synthesizers; Acceleration measurement; Distance measurement; Global positioning system; Microcontrollers; Speech synthesis; Switch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

GCC Conference (GCC), 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Manama

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9590-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9591-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEEGCC.2006.5686241

Filename

5686241