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Blindness or visual impairments may result in a loss of personal autonomy, an important disability when its onset is related to ageing. In this paper we present an ongoing project which is developing a guide robot with the aim of helping people with limited vision in their daily life (“InviGBot”), improving their mobility in the street. The main design criteria have been the simplicity of use and a reduced cost, so that it can be afforded by most users. One of the most innovative elements of InviGBot are its three articulated legs, which provide the capability of easily avoiding obstacles. Thus, it only requires six servomotors (two per leg), which represents two elements fewer than usually required for four-leg designs.
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Garcia, J.A., Poncela, J. (2011). Results of Mobility and Obstacles Detection of an Experimental Three-Legged Prototype for Blind and Deafblind People. In: Bravo, J., Hervás, R., Villarreal, V. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. IWAAL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_2
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