Comparison of active proximity radars for the wearable devices

Author

Bujnowski, Adam ; Czuszynski, Krzysztof ; Ruminski, Jacek ; Wtorek, Jerzy ; McCall, Roderick ; Popleteev, Andrei ; Louveton, Nicolas ; Engel, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Gdansk Univ. of Technol., Gdansk, Poland

fYear

2015

fDate

25-27 June 2015

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

165

Abstract

Two methods of object position and movement estimation in relation to the user of smart glasses were investigated. An active infrared and ultrasonic methods of the obstacle detection were presented and compared. Application of these methods depend on active transducers type (physical medium used), geometry and surface properties of detected objects and their movement direction and speed. In the article properties of both detectors were compared and applicability of both methods in mobile, battery operated environment such as eGlasses platform were compared.

Keywords

motion estimation; object detection; wearable computers; active infrared methods; active transducers type; eGlasses platform; mobile battery operated environment; movement direction; movement estimation; movement speed; object position; obstacle detection; smart glasses; surface properties; ultrasonic methods; wearable devices; Acoustics; Detectors; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Photodiodes; Radar; Transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human System Interactions (HSI), 2015 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSI.2015.7170660

Filename

7170660