A robotic wayfinding system for the visually impaired

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 864-869

  Kulyukin, Vladimir ^a   Gharpure, Chaitanya ^a   Sute, Pradnya ^a   De Graw, Nathan ^a   Nicholson, John ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTTINGHAM OBSTACLE DETECTOR (NOD); RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) SENSORS; ROBOTIC NAVIGATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; ROBOTS; SENSORS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; VISION;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 9444239158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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