Navigation system for visual impaired persons based on satellital location

Author

Pérez-Ponce, H. ; Hernández-Rodríguez, P.R.

Author_Institution

Departamento de Ingenieria Etectrica, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

1-5 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

4795

Lastpage

4798

Abstract

A system designed to assist visual impaired persons to travel in a city without external help using GPS navigation system has been developed. With the use of a BIuetooth hands-free, the user only has to give spoken commands to receive spoken directions to get to his/her destination. The directions received from the system will help him/her to walk parallel to the tangent of the walk-side and to walk through the most convenient route. This means that the route calculated to arrive to the destination point not only will be the shortest, but also the least risky one. The system can also be personalized by the user, entering his/her own waypoints.

Keywords

Bluetooth; Global Positioning System; handicapped aids; vision defects; BIuetooth; GPS navigation system; satellital location; visual impaired persons; Automobiles; Blindness; Bluetooth; Cities and towns; Global Positioning System; Home appliances; Legged locomotion; Missiles; Satellite navigation systems; Senior citizens;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8439-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1404327

Filename

1404327