Understanding environment structure with tactile map

The Intelligent Glasses System (IGS) ongoing research project at Robotics Laboratory of Paris (LRP). University Paris 6, and National Nuclear Testing Commission (CEA), is an electronic travel aid (ETA) which provides useful information on the 3D environment structure. The IGS assists users in obstacle avoidance by providing them a tactile map of their nearest environment where obstacles positions are represented. This work contains an overview of the IGS project and outlines a set of experiments for visuo-tactile man-machine interface validation (HuPer project; CNRS, Robea program).