RFID in robot-assisted indoor navigation for the visually impaired
Published 1 April 2005
Vladimir Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, John A. Nicholson, S. Pavithran
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A robotic guide for the visually impaired was deployed and tested both with and without visually unpaired participants in two indoor environments and illustrated that passive RFID tags deployed in the environment can act as reliable stimuli that trigger local navigation behaviors to achieve global navigation objectives.
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We describe how radio frequency identification (RFID) can be used in robot-assisted indoor navigation for the visually impaired. We present a robotic guide for the visually impaired that was deployed and tested both with and without visually unpaired participants in two indoor environments. We describe how we modified the standard potential fields algorithms to achieve navigation at moderate walking speeds and to avoid oscillation in narrow spaces. The experiments illustrate that passive RFID tags deployed in the environment can act as reliable stimuli that trigger local navigation behaviors to achieve global navigation objectives.
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