A blind traveler walking through an unfamiliar environment, and a mobile robot navigating through a cluttered environment have an important feature in common: both have the kinema...
Non-speech audio navigation systems can be very effective mobility aids for persons with either temporary or permanent vision loss. Sound design has certainly been shown to be imp...
In current mobile navigation systems users receive the navigational instructions on a visual display or by descriptive audio. The mapping between the provided navigation informati...
— Architectures based on Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors are an optimal choice in the attempt to obtain high performance levels in mobile devices. The effectiveness ...
Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi,...
Abstract: In this paper, we describe a prototype of an adaptive indoor navigation system which is based on mobile devices and navigates visually impaired people through an unknown ...