MAB-I (Mobility Assistant for Blind)

Abstract:

The anxiety of the humans to eradicate the difficulties of people landed up in the technological advancements. But the present scenario in India shows that navigation of blind people is a difficult task. The blind people have been using sticks and dogs for their navigation for the past decades. To make them autonomous in their mobility we put forward our idea over the existence of voice commands (IVRS).Two issues have been discussed in this paper. (i)Their navigation has been instructed by the prodigious vibroactuators which could make their mobility in a glib way [1]. The vibrations sensed through haptic perception by the blind make them to reach their destination. Voice commands will be given along with the vibrations in order to make them comfortable [2]. (ii) Our proposal proposes an idea to detect the hindrances using Ultrasonic sensors and it alerts them.The idea has been levelled up with prototype which gave the better results which has been illustrated in this paper.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 446-447)
• Pages: 1178-1182
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.446-447.1178
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: G.C. Vivek Chakaravarthi, B.R. Sathish Kumar, R.P. Ramesh
• Keywords: Haptic Perception, Minimal Cognitive Load, Ultrasonic Sensor, Vibroactuator

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