Title :
Sensor-guided jogging for visually impaired
Author :
Ramer, C. ; Ziegler, C. ; Reitelshofer, S. ; Franke, J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Factory Autom. & Production Syst. (FAPS), Friedrich Alexander Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
Abstract :
This paper introduces an approach for enabling visually impaired and blind people to practice jogging activities by 3D environment perception for course detection and collision avoidance, as well as feedback generation in an intuitive manner. Besides a system concept, first prototypic realizations, that confirm the general feasibility, are presented for this domain, which has not been addressed by research until now.
Keywords :
handicapped aids; object detection; optical sensors; 3D environment perception; blind people; collision avoidance; course detection; feedback generation; optical sensors; sensor-guided jogging; visually impaired people; Belts; Cameras; Navigation; Sensors; Standards; Three-dimensional displays; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (2014 5th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sao Paulo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3126-2
DOI :
10.1109/BIOROB.2014.6913821
