A navigation system for blind pedestrians

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 16, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-5

  Bousbia Salah, Mounir ^a   Fezari, Mohamed ^a   Hamdi, Rachid ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Inertial navigation; Integration; Microcontroller; Navigation system; Obstacle detection; Speech; Switch

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; INTEGRATION; MICROCONTROLLERS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; SPEECH; SWITCHES;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND PERSON; ELECTRONIC TRAVEL AIDSS; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; MICROCONTROLLER-BASED; OBSTACLE DETECTION; PORTABLE ELECTRONICS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 79960725611     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20050703-6-cz-1902.01402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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