Authors : S. Syes Abdul d Sye and T. Senthil Kumaran
Abstract: Blind students all over the world need assistance to navigate around the city or university campus. It is estimated that 374,400 visually impaired students attended colleges at some point in the United States alone. With the quick technological advancement, new opportunities are promising to make life easier for blind students. To design such a system, the design team had to exercise several design steps typically involved in an engineering design process. The steps incorporate writing research, necessities determination, arrangement conceptualizing, system practical deterioration, useful displaying, model usage and testing. Annoyed by the problem, it is a prototype and evaluates a smart guidance system to help blind students navigate from and to classrooms. The designed system consists of two fully integrated modules; a mobile application. The blind student interacts with the mobile application using voice commands. The object recognition is done by using MATLAB that helps the blind student to avoid obstacles and alerts him/her when walking off track. The mobile application is synchronized via Bluetooth technology.
S. Syes Abdul d Sye and T. Senthil Kumaran, 2017. Visor Assistive Contraption Using Object Identification. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 6754-6756.