Substitute Eyes for Blind with Navigator Using Android

Author

Bharambe, Sachin ; Thakker, Rohan ; Patil, Harsharanga ; Bhurchandi, K.M.

Author_Institution

Visvesvaraya Nat. Inst. of Technol., Nagpur, India

fYear

2013

fDate

4-6 April 2013

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

43

Abstract

Our aim is to develop an affordable technology which is cheap and can be a substitute eyes for blind people. As a first step to achieve this goal we decided to make a Navigation System for the Blind. Our device consists of the following 2 parts: 1) Embedded Device: can be used to detect local obstacles such as walls/cars/etc. using 2 ultrasonic sensors to detect the obstacles and vibrator motors to give tactile feedback to the blind. 2) Android App: will give the navigation directions. Can be installed on any android device: cellphone/tablet/etc.

Keywords

Android (operating system); biomedical ultrasonics; handicapped aids; navigation; touch (physiological); ultrasonic devices; vibrations; vision defects; Android app; affordable technology; blind; embedded device; local obstacles; navigation directions; navigation system; navigator; substitute eyes; tactile feedback; ultrasonic sensors; vibrator motors; Acoustics; Androids; Humanoid robots; Microcontrollers; Navigation; Sensors; Software algorithms; Android; Assistive Technology; Blind; Haptics; Navigator; Sensor; Substitute Eyes; Ultrasonic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Educators' Conference (TIIEC), 2013 Texas Instruments

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIIEC.2013.14

Filename

6757112