Bioinspired Electronic White Cane Implementation Based on a LIDAR, a Tri-Axial Accelerometer and a Tactile Belt

Bioinspired Electronic White Cane Implementation Based on a LIDAR, a Tri-Axial Accelerometer and a Tactile Belt

This work proposes the creation of a bioinspired electronic white cane for blind people using the whiskers principle for short-range navigation and exploration. Whiskers are coarse hairs of an animal's face that tells the animal that it has touched something using the nerves of the skin. In thi...

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Main Authors: Jordi Palacin, Mercè Teixidó, Marcel Tresanchez, Tomàs Pallejà
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-12-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
blind
white cane
white stick
LIDAR
accelerometer
tactile
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/10/12/11322/

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