The development of a pedestrian navigation aid for the blind

2006 IEEE GCC Conference, GCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bousbia Salah, Mounir ^a   Fezari, Mohamed ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Acceleration measurement; Distance measurement; Global positioning system; Microcontrollers; Speech synthesis; Switch

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND INDIVIDUALS; BLIND PEOPLE; ELECTRONIC TRAVEL AIDSS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SMALL SIZE; SPOKEN WORDS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCELEROMETERS; CONTROLLERS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MICROCONTROLLERS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 79851498102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEEGCC.2006.5686241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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