Smart guide extension for blind cane

Mutiara, Giva Andriana; Hapsari, Gita Indah; Rijalul, Ramanta

doi:10.1109/icoict.2016.7571896

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“…• LiDAR: Weather phenomena as in rain, snow, fog [265] • Stereo vision: Distance from target, Baseline [266] • Ultrasound: Pollutants [267] Sensor data fusion is effective whenever multiple sensors (homogeneous or heterogeneous) are utilized and data fusion is not limited to the field of robotics [214] and in fact surveillance [268], gesture recognition [18], smart canes [7], guiding glasses [269] use this concept efficiently. The effective temporal, spatial and geometrical alignment of this suite of heterogeneous sensors and the diversity utilization is called sensor data fusion [38,39].…”

Section: Obstacle Avoidancementioning

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“…Assistive robotics is a crucial area of autonomous systems that helps persons who require medical, mobility, domestic, physical, and mental assistance. This research area is gaining popularity in applications like autonomous wheelchair systems [1,2], autonomous walkers [3], lawn movers [4,5], vacuum cleaners [6], intelligent canes [7], and surveillance systems in places like assisted living [8][9][10][11].…”

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Survey of Datafusion Techniques for Laser and Vision Based Sensor Integration for Autonomous Navigation

Kolar

Benavidez

Jamshidi

2020

Sensors

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This paper focuses on data fusion, which is fundamental to one of the most important modules in any autonomous system: perception. Over the past decade, there has been a surge in the usage of smart/autonomous mobility systems. Such systems can be used in various areas of life like safe mobility for the disabled, senior citizens, and so on and are dependent on accurate sensor information in order to function optimally. This information may be from a single sensor or a suite of sensors with the same or different modalities. We review various types of sensors, their data, and the need for fusion of the data with each other to output the best data for the task at hand, which in this case is autonomous navigation. In order to obtain such accurate data, we need to have optimal technology to read the sensor data, process the data, eliminate or at least reduce the noise and then use the data for the required tasks. We present a survey of the current data processing techniques that implement data fusion using different sensors like LiDAR that use light scan technology, stereo/depth cameras, Red Green Blue monocular (RGB) and Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras that use optical technology and review the efficiency of using fused data from multiple sensors rather than a single sensor in autonomous navigation tasks like mapping, obstacle detection, and avoidance or localization. This survey will provide sensor information to researchers who intend to accomplish the task of motion control of a robot and detail the use of LiDAR and cameras to accomplish robot navigation.

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Section: Obstacle Avoidancementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Survey of Datafusion Techniques for Laser and Vision Based Sensor Integration for Autonomous Navigation

Kolar

Benavidez

Jamshidi

2020

Sensors

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“…A water sensor is also placed at the bottom of the cane to detect water and puddles on the ground. Mutiara, Hapsari & Rijalul (2016) place one sensor at cane handle for detecting trunk-level obstacles and the other at the cane bottom with proper angular placement for detecting holes and hitches.…”

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Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions

Khan

Khusro

Ullah

2018

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BackgroundSeveral technology-assisted aids are available to help blind and visually impaired people perform their daily activities. The current research uses the state-of-the-art technology to enhance the utility of traditional navigational aids to produce solutions that are more reliable. In this regard, a white cane is no exception, which is supplemented with the existing technologies to design Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs), Electronic Orientation Aids (EOAs), and Position Locator Devices (PLDs). Although several review articles uncover the strengths and limitations of research contributions that extend traditional navigational aids, we find no review article that covers research contributions on a technology-assisted white cane. The authors attempt to fill this literature gap by reviewing the most relevant research articles published during 2010–2017 with the common objective of enhancing the utility of white cane with the existing technology.MethodsThe authors have collected the relevant literature published during 2010–17 by searching and browsing all the major digital libraries and publishers’ websites. The inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied to select the research articles that are relevant to the topic of this review article, and all other irrelevant papers were excluded. Among the 577 (534 through database searching and 43 through other sources) initially screened papers, the authors collected 228 full-text articles, which after applying exclusion/inclusion criteria resulted in 36 papers that were included in the evaluation, comparison, and discussion. This also includes research articles of commercially available aids published before the specified range.ResultsThe findings show that the research trend is shifting towards developing a technology-assisted white cane solution that is applicable in both indoor and outdoor environments to aid blind users in navigation. In this regard, exploiting smartphones to develop low-cost and user-friendly navigation solution is among the best research opportunities to explore. In addition, the authors contribute a theoretical evaluation framework to compare and evaluate the state-of-the-art solutions, identify research trends and future directions.DiscussionResearchers have been in the quest to find out ways of enhancing the utility of white cane using existing technology. However, for a more reliable enhancement, the design should have user-centric characteristics. It should be portable, reliable, trust-worthy, lightweight, less costly, less power hungry, and require minimal training with special emphasis on its ergonomics and social acceptance. Smartphones, which are the ubiquitous and general-purpose portable devices, should be considered to exploit its capabilities in making technology-assisted white cane smarter and reliable.

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“…A water sensor is also placed at the bottom of the cane to detect water and puddles on the ground. (Mutiara et al 2016) place one sensor at cane handle for detecting trunk-level obstacles and the other at the cane bottom with proper angular placement for detecting holes and hitches.…”

Section: Positioning Sensors On White Canementioning

confidence: 99%

Peer Review #2 of "Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions (v0.1)"

Dagnelie¹

2018

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Background. Several technology-assisted aids are available to help blind and visually impaired people perform their daily activities. The current research uses the state-of-the-art technology to enhance the utility of traditional navigational aids to produce solutions that are more reliable. In this regard, a white cane is no exception, which is supplemented with the existing technologies to design Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs), Electronic Orientation Aids (EOAs), and Position Locator Devices (PLDs). Although several review articles uncover the strengths and limitations of research contributions that extend traditional navigational aids, we find no review article that covers research contributions on a technology-assisted white cane. The authors attempt to fill this literature gap by reviewing the most relevant research articles published during 2010-2017 with the common objective of enhancing the utility of white cane with the existing technology. Methods. The authors have collected the relevant literature published during 2010-17 by searching and browsing all the major digital libraries and publishers' websites. The inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied to select the research articles that are relevant to the topic of this review article, and all other irrelevant papers were excluded. Among the 577 (534 through database searching and 43 through other sources) initially screened papers, the authors collected 228 full-text articles, which after applying exclusion/ inclusion criteria resulted in 36 papers that were included in the evaluation, comparison, and discussion. This also includes research articles of commercially available aids published before the specified range. Results. The findings show that the research trend is shifting towards developing a technology-assisted white cane solution that is applicable in both indoor and outdoor environments to aid blind users in navigation. In this regard, exploiting smartphone to develop low-cost and user-friendly navigation solution is among the best research opportunities to explore. In addition, the authors contribute a theoretical evaluation framework to compare and evaluate the state-of-the-art solutions, identify research trends and future directions. Discussion. Researchers have been in the quest to find out ways of enhancing the utility of white cane using existing technology. However, for a more reliable enhancement, the design should have usercentric characteristics. It should be portable, reliable, trustworthy , lightweight, less costly, less power hungry, and require minimal training with special emphasis on its ergonomics and social acceptance. Smartphones, which are the ubiquitous and general-purpose portable devices, should be considered to exploit its capabilities in making technology-assisted white cane smarter and reliable.

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Smart guide extension for blind cane

Cited by 33 publications

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Survey of Datafusion Techniques for Laser and Vision Based Sensor Integration for Autonomous Navigation

Survey of Datafusion Techniques for Laser and Vision Based Sensor Integration for Autonomous Navigation

Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions

Peer Review #2 of "Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions (v0.1)"

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