SBIR Phase II: Individualized Guidance for the Blind (IGB)

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将为盲人系统开发个性化指导，这是一种准确、实惠、易于使用的室内/室外辅助导航系统，以帮助盲人认路和旅行。在另一项努力中，一种使用GPS进行户外定位的盲人指路系统正在设计和建造中。然而，对于室内使用，该系统需要一个复杂的惯性制导系统来定位和制导。在该项目中，将使用廉价的光学定位器来改进室内寻路，并提供类似GPS的室内定位。开发的软件将允许对盲人定位器进行个性化指导，以便在室内提供类似GPS的定位器信息，并允许向个人数据助理(PDA)输入位置、更新位置和消除错误。作为一种商业产品，应用领域将包括医院、护理设施、博物馆、商场、学校、零售店、贸易展览、交通设施和其他盲人和视力受限者需要导航辅助的地方。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop an Individualized Guidance for the Blind system which is an accurate, affordable, easy-to-use indoor/outdoor assistive navigation system to aid people who are blind in wayfinding and traveling. In a separate effort, a wayfinding system for the blind using GPS for outdoor location is now being designed and built. For indoor use, however, this system requires a complex inertial guidance system for location and guidance. In this project, inexpensive optical locators will be used to improve indoor wayfinding and supply GPS-like location indoors. Software developed will allow Individualized Guidance for the Blind locators to provide GPS-like locator information indoors and permit the input of location to the personal data assistants (PDA), updating of location and elimination of errors. As a commerical product, application areas will include hospitals, care facilities, museums, malls, schools, retail stores, trade shows, transportation facilities and otherplaces where blind and people with limited vision require navigation assistance.