Laser sensing and vision sensing smart canes can improve the convenience of travel for the
visually impaired, but for the present, most of the system functions of laser sensing and …

International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 34, No. 5, 2019 AN OVERVIEW OF
ASSISTIVE DEVICES FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE Menghan Hu,∗,∗∗ …

The track line suffers from track irregularity, subgrade settlement, rail surface defects, and
gauge distortion. Measuring the track geometry quality plays an important role in rail …

Independent mobility is one of the main challenges for blind or visually impaired (BVI)
people. In particular, BVI people often need to identify and avoid nearby obstacles, for …

A diverse array of assistive technologies have been developed to help Visually Impaired
People (VIP) face many basic daily autonomy challenges. Inertial measurement unit …

Accurate tracking and modeling of internal and external respiratory motion in the thoracic
and abdominal regions of a human body is a highly discussed topic in external beam …

Robots and especially mobile robots have experienced rapid growth, making them part of
everyday life. An inertial measurement unit (IMU), which is a set of sensors, plays an …

Teleception is defined as sensing that occurs remotely, with no physical contact with the
object being sensed. To emulate innate control systems of the human body, a control system …

Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) improve the mobility of visually-impaired persons, but it is not
easy to develop an ETA satisfying all the factors needed for reliable object detection …

This paper presents a study of the main contributions, in terms of the development of
electronics and RFID technologies, to assist people with visual disabilities in their …