The Development of the Walking Assistance Device with an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot

Abstract

Nowadays, many of the visually impaired people are living indoors or outdoors using a guide dog or a white cane. However, these walking assisting tools must often rely on the user's senses and free life of the visually impaired people are not yet guaranteed completely. For such reason, in recent years, the development of the walking assisting device with electronics have been actively carried out. But it is not popular yet in general. This study is the development of new walking assisting device for visually impaired people to live freely.