BLINDTRACK: Guiding System for Visually Impaired - Locating System for Running on a Track

Ferdinand Kemeth, Sven Hafenecker, Ágnes Jakab, Máté Varga, Tamás Csielka, Sylvie Couronné

2014

Abstract

Visually impaired people need to renounce several social activities what the sighted people can enjoy. In this paper we refer to the project BLINDTRACK which has the major goal to develop a guidance system. A real-time locating system (RTLS) based on radio signals guides the runners with the highest level of safety by estimating the angle of arrival (AoA) and round-trip time (RTT). First results show the position accuracy of the proposed locating system with real-world data. BLINDTRACK provides an enormous freedom for the visually impaired runners in compare to the other solutions: Sighted and blind runners will have the opportunity to perform sport together without another person’s assistance.

References

  1. American Foundation for the Blind (2014). Tips for runners with visual impairments. http://www.afb.org/ info/living-with-vision-loss/recreation/running-2805/ 235.
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in Harvard Style

Kemeth F., Hafenecker S., Jakab Á., Varga M., Csielka T. and Couronné S. (2014). BLINDTRACK: Guiding System for Visually Impaired - Locating System for Running on a Track . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Sports Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS, ISBN 978-989-758-057-4, pages 183-189. DOI: 10.5220/0005143001830189


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsports14,
author={Ferdinand Kemeth and Sven Hafenecker and Ágnes Jakab and Máté Varga and Tamás Csielka and Sylvie Couronné},
title={BLINDTRACK: Guiding System for Visually Impaired - Locating System for Running on a Track},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Sports Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,},
year={2014},
pages={183-189},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005143001830189},
isbn={978-989-758-057-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Sports Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,
TI - BLINDTRACK: Guiding System for Visually Impaired - Locating System for Running on a Track
SN - 978-989-758-057-4
AU - Kemeth F.
AU - Hafenecker S.
AU - Jakab Á.
AU - Varga M.
AU - Csielka T.
AU - Couronné S.
PY - 2014
SP - 183
EP - 189
DO - 10.5220/0005143001830189