A CONTACTLESS HAPTIC CANE FOR BLIND PEOPLE

Bruno Andò, Salvatore Baglio, Nicola Pitrone

Abstract

Mobility is a big deal for visually impaired people and many of the devices already available on the market suffer for poor degree and form of the information provided to the user. In this paper a new way of codifying the information to the blind end user is suggested.The proposed strategy is aimed to move the focus of the electronic aids from an artificial way to codify the information to a natural form. In particular, the developed contactless haptic cane exploits smart signal processing paradigms and an actuator matrix to produce on the user hand palm a stimulus miming the sensation given by a conventional white cane bumping into a obstacle in the user path.

Keywords

blind people, haptic cane, contactless

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TC1 - Education and Training in Measurement and Instrumentation

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