Navigation System for the Visually Impaired in a Campus Setting

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Navigation System for the Visually Impaired in a
Campus Setting

• Group 12

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Group Members

• Mentor
• Dr. Mario Magaña - Telecommunications
• Engineering Team
• Brian Ardito - Computer Engineering
  (Webmaster/Hardware/Software Development)
• Bobby Lee - Electrical Engineering (Team
  Leader/Hardware Development)
• Mary Cooper- Electrical Engineering
  (Intercampus Relations/Hardware Development)
• Robert Banagale - Computer Engineering (Public
  Relations/Software Development)
• Sponsored by Hewlett Packard

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Introduction

• Project Description
• Opted for GPS over radio triangulation due to
  greater accuracy and expandability.
• Laptop interfaces with the GPS to obtain
  navigational coordinates.
• The user specifies the desired destination.
• Software on laptop audibly provides directions to
  the user.

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Project Progress

• Research Development
• GPS with WAAS capability
• Voice recognition
• Design
• Parsing and extracting navigational coordinates
• Defining waypoints on a predetermined path from
  the MU to Owen Hall.
• Software audibly providing directions from point
  to point.

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Background

• Map Details (Expanded Project Focus Area)

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Prototype Demonstration
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Project Projection

• Future Development
• Determine additional paths
• Incorporate voice recognition
• Stray correction
• Testing
• Multiple simulations over predetermined paths
• Final implementation

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Concluding Remarks

• Improving Quality of Life.
• Question and Answer.