Hazard-free outdoor path navigator for visually challenged people.

A multi-technology approach is helpful for challenging people to sense, localisation and user-centred route maps to navigate between destinations. Visually challenged people need navigation assistance between source and destination to choose a hazard-free or minimal-hazard optimal path. Navigator in...

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Publicado en:Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology Vol. 20; no. 8; pp. 3220 - 3236
Autores principales: Viriyala, Sri Anima Padmini, Ganesan, Vithya
Formato: equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2025
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          Viriyala, Sri Anima Padmini
          Ganesan, Vithya
        affil: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
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          Persons with Visual Disabilities
          Environment
          Algorithms
          Spatial Perception
          Global Positioning System
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          Computer Hardware
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          Risk Assessment Classification
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          Cloud Computing
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      ab: A multi-technology approach is helpful for challenging people to sense, localisation and user-centred route maps to navigate between destinations. Visually challenged people need navigation assistance between source and destination to choose a hazard-free or minimal-hazard optimal path. Navigator invokes online and offline hazard-free route maps to establish a safe and optimised route between source and destination. An online navigation system finds hazard-free optimal paths by artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), machine learning (ML) and cloud. The offline navigator uses a tensor processing unit (TPU) to generate a path map. Navigator uses AI and DL techniques to identify tree branches, signboards, underside of parked vehicles, open glass windows bumping into another walking person and fast-moving objects in outdoors and predicts artificial and natural hazards for selecting hazard-free optimised paths. The proposed fuzzy trusted hazard free routing path (FTHRP) algorithm utilises the data set "hazard-route data set" to identify the obstacle-free path between the source and destination by path planning and dynamic re-routing to avoid unexpected hazards. The navigation system leverages semantic route mapping based on AI-driven context inference processed by hardware and software. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION: The system uses cloud based detecting system for obstacle detection and sends back audio or buzzer sound as response which informs the visually impaired about its position by using navigator. Navigator uses online and offline for navigation. For outdoor, it uses cloud. Machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) are used with the support of cloud. For indoor, it uses federated learning by tensor flow network. There are two types of navigation assistance to visually challenged people. They are indoor and outdoor assistance. Indoor navigation assistance: Indoor navigation system enhances the basic day-to-day activities in usual and unusual places by identifying the obstacle image and training the images by ML. Outdoor navigation assistance between source and destination: The navigation system is trained to give guidance by using cloud system to choose the optimal path with fewer obstacles to reach the destination. This project is submitted under the guidance of Department of Science and Technology (DST)- Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) – CRG – Government of India.
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