iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects
Visually impaired people find great difficulty in moving around freely without a human guide, especially in a new terrain. iWalk is an intelligent walking stick specially designed for visually disabled individuals to improve and ease navigation. iWalk uses ultrasonic and water sensors to detect obs...
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2018
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| author | Olanrewaju, Rashidah Funke Mohd Radzi, Muhammad Luqman Azzaki Rehab, Mariam |
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| description | Visually impaired people find great difficulty in moving around freely without a human guide, especially in a new terrain. iWalk is an intelligent walking stick specially designed for visually disabled individuals to improve and ease navigation. iWalk uses ultrasonic and water sensors to detect obstacles and water ahead. The water sensor integrated therein activates a distinct buzzer if it detects water. The system comes with a wireless RF remote control that uniquely sounds buzzier when pressed, that helps in locating the stick in case it gets misplaced. The efficiency of the proposed solution has been adequately tested on a dataset composed of randomized locations with obstacles and water. The proposed algorithm achieves an overall efficiency of 90% detection rate for water and ultrasonic sensor and 85.75% for the RF wireless remote control. |
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| spelling | iium-613902018-11-08T07:59:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/61390/ iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects Olanrewaju, Rashidah Funke Mohd Radzi, Muhammad Luqman Azzaki Rehab, Mariam T Technology (General) T10.5 Communication of technical information TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Visually impaired people find great difficulty in moving around freely without a human guide, especially in a new terrain. iWalk is an intelligent walking stick specially designed for visually disabled individuals to improve and ease navigation. iWalk uses ultrasonic and water sensors to detect obstacles and water ahead. The water sensor integrated therein activates a distinct buzzer if it detects water. The system comes with a wireless RF remote control that uniquely sounds buzzier when pressed, that helps in locating the stick in case it gets misplaced. The efficiency of the proposed solution has been adequately tested on a dataset composed of randomized locations with obstacles and water. The proposed algorithm achieves an overall efficiency of 90% detection rate for water and ultrasonic sensor and 85.75% for the RF wireless remote control. 10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312000 2018-03-09 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61390/1/61390_IWalk%20Intelligent%20walking%20stick%20for%20visually_complete.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61390/2/61390_IWalk%20Intelligent%20walking%20stick%20for%20visually_scopus.pdf Olanrewaju, Rashidah Funke and Mohd Radzi, Muhammad Luqman Azzaki and Rehab, Mariam (2018) iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects. In: 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA) 2017, 28th-30th November 2017, Putrajaya. http://icsima.ieeemy-ims.org/17/ 10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312000 |
| spellingShingle | T Technology (General) T10.5 Communication of technical information TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Olanrewaju, Rashidah Funke Mohd Radzi, Muhammad Luqman Azzaki Rehab, Mariam iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects |
| title | iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects |
| title_full | iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects |
| title_fullStr | iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects |
| title_full_unstemmed | iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects |
| title_short | iWalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects |
| title_sort | iwalk:intelligent walking stick for visually impaired subjects |
| topic | T Technology (General) T10.5 Communication of technical information TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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