Autonomous Smart White Cane Navigation System for Indoor Usage

A Universal Vision-based Navigation System for Autonomous Indoor Robots

The topic of autonomous robotics is very popular nowadays because of the great diversity of applications for which an autonomous robot can provide a better solution than previously existing methods. Initially, the main concern of researchers of this topic was to make manipulations possible in areas where human presence is impossible, highly dangerous or otherwise impractical. An example of such...

Autonomous Navigation for Miniature Indoor Airships

In recent years, embedded systems have become popular, and, for example, consumer electronics, transportation, and robotics are hard to imagine without them. As mobile devices with embedded systems are often supposed to act intelligently, they are usually equipped with sensors and actuators for interaction with humans or for autonomous operation. However, cost pressure and miniaturization impos...

Autonomous Navigation of Indoor Mobile Robot Using Global Ultrasonic System

Canoe: An Autonomous Infrastructure-Free Indoor Navigation System

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated research in indoor navigation systems, a majority of which rely on adequate wireless signals and sources. Nonetheless, deploying such a system requires periodic site-survey, which is time consuming and labor intensive. To address this issue, in this paper we present Canoe, an indoor navigation system that considers shopping mall sc...

The ViibraCane - A White Cane for Tactile Navigation Guidance

During previous CSUN conferences we presented the navigation system TANIA (Tactile-Acoustical Navigation and Information Assistant). The system’s main component is an Ultra Mobile PC and it achieves positioning of the user via an accurate step-tracking method, GPS, and RFID tags, and works both indoors and outdoors. Besides providing information about the surrounding area by an integrated tacti...