An indoor navigation approach to aid the physically disabled people

2012 International Conference on Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies, ICCEET 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 979-983

  Mirza, Ruquia ^a,b   Tehseen, Ayesha ^a,b   Joshi Kumar, A V ^a,b  

^a SRI SAIRAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Indoor navigation; indoor positioning; obstacle avoidance; physically disabled; voice; wheelchair

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; COMMON PROBLEMS; DISABLED PEOPLE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR NAVIGATION; INDOOR POSITIONING; LATERATION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICALLY DISABLED; REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL; VOICE COMMAND;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; NAVIGATION; SPEECH; WHEELCHAIRS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84863098335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCEET.2012.6203860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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