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Senior Design Program on Assistive Technology to Aid Visually Impaired People

帮助视障人士的辅助技术高级设计项目

基本信息

批准号：
1160046
负责人：
Jizhong Xiao
金额：
$ 12.5万
依托单位：
CUNY City College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-09-01 至 2017-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1160046&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Senior Design Program Assistive Technology

项目摘要

PI: Xiao, JixhongProposal Number: 1160046The objective of this project is to create a two-semester joint senior design program on assistive technology for CCNY undergraduate seniors in electrical engineering (EE), computer science (CS), and computer engineering (CpE), providing them with major engineering design opportunities to experience real-world entrepreneurial challenges. The proposal seeks funding for 6 senior design projects per year for a period of 5 years. The proposed senior design program builds on our existing capstone design course structure, but with a new concentration on assistive technology for visually impaired people. It will also fully utilize the opportunities provided by the CCNY Entrepreneurship program. In the first semester of the year-long senior design program, the course instructor will offer general lectures on project management which will introduce Total Design methodology, market analysis, IP issues, entrepreneurship, etc. In parallel, the PIs will offer technical lectures to introduce state-of-the-art of assistive technology and empower students with necessary technical skills to perform design. Under the guidance of the PIs, the students will work in teams in a multidisciplinary environment to analyze the real needs of blind/visually impaired people, propose design concept and custom design assistive devices throughout the year to directly help the blind users. In addition, the student teams are encouraged to attend the seminars offered by CCNY entrepreneurship program and to compete for the Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship. The winning teams will receive additional financial support and on-campus housing to work over summers to turn their ideas into successful business start-ups.Intellectual Merits: Leveraging Prof. Xiao's expertise in robotic navigation and Prof. Zhu's expertise in computer vision and scene understanding, the two PIs have been working on the development of human centric assistive navigation systems for the blind people to achieve independent travel in unfamiliar environments. The senior design program creates a great opportunity for students to work on the latest technology and custom design assistive devices and software tools to aid visually impaired people using multimodal sensing techniques and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods. The pieces of work produced in the senior design projects will directly help the blind people, and when put together, will constitute a more sophisticated assistive navigation system which will outperform the existing travel aids in the market. The senior design program provides an ideal platform to involve students from multiple disciplines (EE, CS, CpE) in transformative research to contribute their knowledge and skills learned from their 4-year undergraduate training in circuit design, computer programming and human-computer interaction. This cross-disciplinary design experience on assistive devices will prepare the students to be competent in their engineering careers. The students will be guided by the PIs to exercise Total Design practice in every stages of the design effort: user needs and market analysis, product design specification, design ideas, detail design, prototyping, usability testing, and business planning.Broader Impact: The research results and assistive device prototypes produced in the senior design projects have great potential for commercialization, which will directly benefit blind/visually impaired people and assist them to access unfamiliar environments. The team will work closely with the New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (CBVH) next door to City College on usability testing. The senior design program on assistive technology inspires innovation and supports the training of the future work force from our traditionally under-represented students at CCNY (1/3 Black, 1/3 Hispanic, many women, as well as disabled students) to meet the critical national need for smart healthcare that promoting the wellbeing for all. The results produced in the senior projects will be disseminated through technical publications, outreach to the visual-aid communities (CCVIP, CBVH, etc.), and design studio wiki pages.

主要研究者：Xiao，Jixhong提案编号：1160046该项目的目标是创建一个为期两个学期的联合高级设计计划，在电气工程（EE），计算机科学（CS）和计算机工程（CpE）的CCNY本科毕业生的辅助技术，为他们提供重大工程设计的机会，体验现实世界的创业挑战。该提案要求每年资助6个高级设计项目，为期5年。拟议中的高级设计课程建立在我们现有的顶点设计课程结构，但对视障人士的辅助技术有了新的关注。它还将充分利用CCNY创业计划提供的机会。在为期一年的高级设计课程的第一学期，课程讲师将提供项目管理方面的一般讲座，介绍全面设计方法论，市场分析，知识产权问题，创业精神等。同时，PI将提供技术讲座，介绍最先进的辅助技术，并使学生具备必要的技术技能来执行设计。在PI的指导下，学生们将在多学科环境中进行团队合作，分析盲人/视障人士的真实的需求，提出设计理念，全年定制设计辅助设备，直接帮助盲人用户。此外，鼓励学生团队参加CCNY创业计划提供的研讨会，并竞争凯莉创业奖。获胜的团队将获得额外的财政支持和校园住宿，以便在夏季工作，将他们的想法转化为成功的创业。智力优势：利用肖教授在机器人导航方面的专业知识和朱教授在计算机视觉和场景理解方面的专业知识，这两名私家侦探一直致力发展以人为本的辅助导航系统，让失明人士在陌生的环境。高级设计课程为学生创造了一个很好的机会，可以使用最新的技术和定制设计辅助设备和软件工具来帮助视障人士使用多模态传感技术和同步定位和映射（SLAM）方法。这些高级设计项目所产生的作品将直接帮助盲人，并将组成一个更复杂的辅助导航系统，该系统将优于市场上现有的旅行辅助设备。高级设计课程提供了一个理想的平台，让来自多个学科（EE，CS，CpE）的学生参与变革性研究，以贡献他们在电路设计，计算机编程和人机交互方面的4年本科培训中学到的知识和技能。这种辅助设备的跨学科设计经验将使学生能够胜任他们的工程职业。学生将在PI的指导下，在设计工作的每个阶段进行全面设计实践：用户需求和市场分析，产品设计规范，设计理念，细节设计，原型设计，可用性测试和商业规划。高级设计项目中的研究成果和辅助器具原型具有巨大的商业化潜力，这将直接使盲人/视障人士受益，并帮助他们进入不熟悉的环境。该团队将与城市学院隔壁的纽约州盲人和视力障碍者委员会（CBVH）密切合作进行可用性测试。关于辅助技术的高级设计课程激发创新，并支持我们传统上代表性不足的学生在CCNY（1/3黑人，1/3西班牙裔，许多女性以及残疾学生）的未来劳动力的培训，以满足国家对智能医疗保健的关键需求，促进所有人的福祉。高级项目的成果将通过技术出版物、与视觉辅助社区（CCVIP、CBVH等）的联系、设计工作室wiki页面