RoboCart: toward robot-assisted navigation of grocery stores by the visually impaired

Kulyukin, Vladimir; Gharpure, Chaitanya; Nicholson, John

doi:10.1109/iros.2005.1545107

Cited by 102 publications

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“…There is not an estimation method for the lost nodes, as it happens when there are moving obstacles in the environment. The developed algorithm as been also implemented in other applications: to help blind people while shopping in a supermarket [16]; and as a support system for elderly people using a wheeled smart walking frame, named iWalker [17]. The main disadvantage of those prototypes is that the routes must be pre-coded and they also require a map of the environment.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Signage System for the Navigation of Autonomous Robots in Indoor Environments

Paredes

Malfáz

Salichs

2014

IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Signage System for the Navigation of Autonomous Robots in Indoor Environments

Paredes

Malfáz

Salichs

2014

IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf.

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“…RoboCart was our first accessible blind shopping project that started in early 2004 [12] at the Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory of Utah State University (USU CSATL). The objective was to design a robotic supermarket shopping assistant for blind and VI shoppers.…”

Section: Robocartmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessible Shopping Systems for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals: Design Requirements and the State of the Art

Kulyukin¹,

Kutiyanawala²

2010

TOREHJ

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Independent grocery shopping is one of the most functionally challenging tasks for visually impaired and blind individuals. Many assistive shopping systems have been developed to address the problem of blind grocery shopping. In this article, we identify several design requirements for assistive shopping systems and analyze existing approaches to see how well they meet them. Our objective is to shed some light on possible research and development directions for the accessible blind shopping community and to offer designers of accessible shopping solutions evaluation tools that can be used as initial points of comparison.

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“…The assistive and rehabilitation technologies that have been researched and built are such as GuideCane [2], NavBelt [3], My 2nd Eye [4], SMART EYE [5], [6], and others. Besides that, one of the developed mobile robots for the blind which is designed to help the blind in shopping malls [7]. Without the state of the art of these technologies, the visually impaired people only counts on the conventional white cane to detect surrounding obstacles and sense the road in front of them.…”

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Indoor Navigation System based on Passive RFID Transponder with Digital Compass for Visually Impaired People

Kassim¹,

Yasuno²,

Suzuki³

et al. 2016

ijacsa

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Abstract-Conventionally, visually impaired people using white cane or guide dog for traveling to desired destination. However, they could not identify their surround easily. Hence, this paper describes the development of navigation system which is applied to guide the visually impaired people at an indoor environment. To provide an efficient and user-friendly navigation tools, a navigation device is developed by using passive radio frequency identification (RFID) transponders which are mounted on the floor such as on tactile paving to build such as RFID networks. The developed navigation system is equipped with a digital compass to facilitate the visually impaired people to walk properly at right direction especially when turning process. The idea of positioning and localization with the digital compass and direction guiding through voice commands is implemented in this system. Some experiments also done which is focused on the calibration of the digital compass and relocates the visually impaired people back to the right route if they are out of the direction. Besides, a comparison between two subjects which are human and a mobile robot is made to check the validity of the developed navigation system. As the result, the traveling speed of human and mobile robot is obtained from the experiment. This project is beneficial to visually impaired people because the navigation device designed with voice commands will help them to have a better experience, safer and comfortable travel.

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RoboCart: toward robot-assisted navigation of grocery stores by the visually impaired

Cited by 102 publications

References 8 publications

Signage System for the Navigation of Autonomous Robots in Indoor Environments

Signage System for the Navigation of Autonomous Robots in Indoor Environments

Accessible Shopping Systems for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals: Design Requirements and the State of the Art

Indoor Navigation System based on Passive RFID Transponder with Digital Compass for Visually Impaired People

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