An Electronically Guided Walking Stick for the Blind

Abstract

Mobility for the blind is always a great problem. Just like a sighted, blind also needs to travel around inside a closed premises like house, factory, office, school etc. They may also like to go for shopping, visiting friends and other places of their interest Presently available electronic travelling aids like sonic path finder, sonic torch etc. are not suitable for using inside a closed premises such as school, factory, office etc. In this paper an electronically guided walking stick that can be used conveniently inside a closed premises has been discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA409264

Entities

People

  • Niranjan Debnath
  • Sakinah Jamaludin
  • Syed A. Aljunid
  • Zul A. Hailani

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Capacitors
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Communication Systems
  • Earphones
  • Energy Consumption
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Military Research
  • Radio Communications
  • Radio Frequency
  • Transmitters
  • Ultrasounds
  • Universities
  • Vibration

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics