A staggering 98 percent of blind people have experienced head-level accidents with some requiring professional medical assistance. Current technologies such as the white cane and guide dogs come with a significant flaw: the inability to detect objects at head-level. As such, the objective of this project was to create a more effective and affordable means to detect and prevent head-level injuries in blind people. Blindsight uses ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles and transmits this information to haptic vibration motors which will then alert the user of incoming obstacles.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Fernandez, Alan E.
• Chakravarti, Aatreya

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042319-184932

Advisor

• Mendelson, Yitzhak
• Bitar, Stephen John

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-04-23

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright