Applied Image Processing and Systems for Welfare. Development of the Robotic Travel Aid for the Visually Impaired.
Applied Image Processing and Systems for Welfare. Development of the Robotic Travel Aid for the Visually Impaired.
复制标题
应用图像处理和福利系统。
DOI：
10.3169/itej.51.878
复制
发表时间：
1997
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
H. Mori
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
S. Kotani;N. Kiyohiro;H. Mori
机器人旅行辅助系统(ROTA)是一种机动轮椅，配备了视觉、声纳和触觉传感器，以及一个地图数据库系统。视障人士可以从Rota获得行动、方向和障碍信息，他们可以查询他们目前的位置、地标和未来的路线部分。轮转可以帮助视障人士避开带有车道标志的道路或标有盲文的人行道上的车辆。在本文中，我们提出了基于“基于符号模式的刻板动作”的机器人运动策略。本文描述了1)危险估计，2)行人检测，3)轮换地图系统。实验结果表明了该方法的有效性。此外，一位戴着眼罩的心理学家对ROTA(不是基于视觉的类型，而是基于声纳的类型)进行了评估，实验结果表明，ROTA对视障人士来说是非常有价值的帮助。
The Robotic Travel Aid (RoTA) is a motorized wheelchair equipped with vision, sonar, and tactile sensors, as well as a map database system. The visually impaired can get mobility, orientation, and obstacle information from the RoTA, and they can inquire about their present location, landmarks, and future parts of their route. The RoTA can help the visually impaired avoid vehicles along a road with lane marks or along a sidewalk marked with braille. In this paper, we propose the locomotion strategy of our robot, which is based on “sign-pattern-based stereotyped action.” This paper describes 1) danger estimation, 2) pedestrian detection, and 3) the map system for the RoTA. Experimental results showed the effectiveness of our proposed method. Furthermore, a psychologist wearing an eye-mask evaluated a RoTA (not the vision-based type but the sonar-based type), and the experimental results showed the RoTA to be a very valuable aid to the visually impaired.