Finding objects for assisting blind people

Wireless Guide for Assisting Blind and Visually Impaired People

The world is constantly advancing with technological progress in many areas; however advancements to assist the lives of the blind and visually impaired have been limited. This project presents the development of a navigation system for assisting the blind and visually impaired. The project involves multiple hardware and software components. For simplicity, these components are divided into two...

A FRIEND for assisting handicapped people

eople with upper-limb impairments, including people with multiple sclerosis, spasticity, cerebral palsy, paraplegia, or stroke, depend on a personal assistant for daily life situations and in the working environment. The robot arm MANUS was designed for such people, but they frequently cannot use it because of their disability. The control elements require flexibility and coordination in the ha...

Assisting people who are visually impaired

Demo: Assisting Visually Impaired People Navigate Indoors

Research in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Computer Vision has recently made great strides in improving indoor localization. Publicly available technology now allows for indoor localization with very small margins of error. In this demo, we show a system that uses state-of the-art technology to assist visually impaired people navigate indoors. Our system takes advantage of spatial repres...

Mobile Robot Set Localization for Assisting People at Home

The robot, as technology of daily assistance to the person, may be considered only if its availability is compatible with the expected service. The useful operating time should be around eight hours per 24 hours. One of the major issues is the reliability of the autonomy of the robot. This objective can be achieved by relying on the principle of ambient robotics, defined as cooperation between ...