Title :
Study of improved fuzzy control anti-collision method
Author :
Wang Xuan ; Shen Xiao-hong ; Yan Yong-sheng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´an, China
Abstract :
There are 37 million blind people in this world which calls for an urgent need of a real-time and intelligent guiding device. Based on the blind´s walking characteristics, this paper builds a multi-ultrasonic sensors guiding hardware platform for the blind, proposes an improved anti-collision guiding algorithm based on improved fuzzy control, and realizes the algorithm by programming on the hardware platform. This algorithm uses the distance and orientation information of obstacles gained by multi-sensors as the input of fuzzy logic, and finally gives out the guiding information for the blind as output. It makes full use of all the output information of the fuzzy control. Besides, the algorithm doesn´t only provide the blind walking direction information, but also provides the blind walking angle as auxiliary information. Experiment shows that this algorithm can effectively guide the blind people to avoid obstacles.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; fuzzy control; handicapped aids; sensor fusion; ultrasonic devices; fuzzy logic; improved fuzzy control anticollision method; intelligent guiding device; multiultrasonic sensors; obstacle distance information; obstacle orientation information; real-time guiding device; Acoustics; Collision avoidance; Fuzzy control; Hardware; Legged locomotion; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Guide; fuzzy control; multi-sensor; obstacle avoidance;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing, Communication and Computing (ICSPCC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2192-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSPCC.2012.6335684