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Design and Implementation of Smart Cane for Visually Impaired People

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6th International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam (BME6) (BME 2017)

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Abstract

In this paper, a smart cane can help visually impaired people to detect the obstacles around them is designed and implemented. A PCB board uses a microcontroller to get data from ultrasonic sensors to determine the distance from the cane to the nearest obstacles. This distance information will be transferred to the Android smart phone via Bluetooth protocol. Whenever user is walking to an area where having obstacles around and the distance between user and obstacle is shorter than a predefined threshold, the phone will display distance and give warning by speaking that value in centimeter unit while the vibration motor attached to the cane will vibrate with the intensity in inversely proportional with the value of the distance.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, International University Vietnam National University, HCM City, Vietnam

    Do Ngoc Hung, Vo Minh-Thanh, Nguyen Minh-Triet, Quoc Luong Huy & Viet Trinh Cuong

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Correspondence to Do Ngoc Hung .

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  1. Biomedical Engineering Department, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh , Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Toi Vo Van

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Thanh An Nguyen Le

  3. Biomedical Engineering Department, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh Biomedical Engineering Department, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Thang Nguyen Duc

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Hung, D.N., Minh-Thanh, V., Minh-Triet, N., Huy, Q.L., Cuong, V.T. (2018). Design and Implementation of Smart Cane for Visually Impaired People. In: Vo Van, T., Nguyen Le, T., Nguyen Duc, T. (eds) 6th International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam (BME6) . BME 2017. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 63. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4361-1_41

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