Android端末を用いた路上障害物認識装置

Abstract

Severely impaired people in vision need seeing-eye dogs, however, it takes long time and costs a lot of money to train them. In addition, not all candidate dogs may be grown as seeing dogs. Therefore, available number of seeing-eye dog is very few and far from to satisfy actual demand. Some efforts are made to develop a robotic seeing-eye dog. In this paper, emulation of seeing-eye dog using Android terminal and ultrasonic sensor is discussed. An obstacle is recognized by introduction of image processing and an ultrasonic sensor. Obstacle avoidance by the voice guidance from an Android