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http://dx.doi.org/10.21288/resko.2017.11.2.147

Walking Assistive Shoes for Visually Impaired Person Using Infrared Sensor and Pressure Sensor  

Yang, Chang-Min (전북대학교 헬스케어공학과)
Jung, Ji-Yong (전북대학교 바이오메디컬공학부)
Kim, Jung-Ja (전북대학교 바이오메디컬공학부)
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Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology / v.11, no.2, 2017 , pp. 147-156 More about this Journal
Abstract
The white cane, walking assistive device of visually impaired person, has disadvantages for acquiring the information by contacting obstacles directly and detecting low obstacle on the ground. Recently, new devices have been developing to solve these problems, but these were not widely used due to high price and appearance. Therefore, in this study, we developed two types of walking assistive shoes which were manufactured with infrared sensors, pressure sensors and vibrating motors. Two types of shoes were classified with single sensor (SS) and double sensor (DS) type according to the number of infrared sensor. To evaluate the effectiveness, we compared required time and number of collisions during walking with walking assistive shoes and white cane on obstacle area. As the results, required time was increased than white cane while number of collisions was decreased when walking with developed walking assistive shoes. In addition, required time and number of collisions was more reduced when using walking assistive device than white cane. Therefore, we suggests that developed walking assistive shoes can a great help to provide safe walking condition and reducing time to adapt new types of walking assistive shoes.
Keywords
Infrared Sensor; Pressure Sensor; Vibration Motor; Visually Impaired Person; Walking Assistive Device;
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