MSVI - supervised autonomous pedestrian navigation: Feasibility study to integrate a smartphone for computational offloading and UX optimisation

MSVI - 监督式自主行人导航：集成智能手机以进行计算卸载和用户体验优化的可行性研究

• 批准号: 10073105
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: THEIA GUIDANCE SYSTEMS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10073105
• 关键词: MSVI; supervised; autonomous; pedestrian; navigation

Theia is an orientation and mobility device for people with visual impairments. BBC Science Focus Magazine named it as the number one invention that will shape the future (2020). Anthony Camu, Theia's inventor, is an awardee of the Innovate UK Young Innovator cohort from the Year 2021/22\.Think of it as a guide dog helping Visually Impaired users to navigate. Our patent pending device scans the ground and generates a 3D map of the user's environment. It then uses forces to guide user's hands - similar to a guide dog pulling on its leash.We have already developed a prototype of our product and tested it extensively with users in Alpha and Beta phases. It is able to successfully support VI people in identifying obstacles and navigating safely.This is potentially good news for the 350,000 blind and partially sighted people in the UK and approximately 300 million worldwide. In the UK, 95% of blind and partially sighted people have collided with an obstacle in their neighbourhood within a three-month period with a third suffering injuries (RNIB, 2017).The most effective support is a guide dog, but there simply are not enough of them. Only 1 in 72 eligible VI people receive a guide dog, leaving a large proportion of VI's requiring alternative support and guidance.That is where Theia can help! We're developing a device that does many of the jobs a guide dog does. However, to make our product more effective and get our product to market sooner, a new R&D project is required to research different hardware configurations to reduce device cost, size, weight and power requirements, to lead to a more user-centric and scalable product.

Theia 是一款专为视力障碍人士设计的定向和移动设备。 BBC Science Focus 杂志将其评为塑造未来的第一大发明（2020 年）。 Theia 的发明者 Anthony Camu 是 2021/22 年英国创新青年创新者群体的获奖者\。将其视为帮助视障用户导航的导盲犬。我们正在申请专利的设备扫描地面并生成用户环境的 3D 地图。然后，它使用力量来引导用户的手 - 类似于导盲犬拉动皮带。我们已经开发了产品原型，并在 Alpha 和 Beta 阶段与用户进行了广泛的测试。它能够成功支持 VI 人识别障碍物并安全导航。这对于英国 35 万盲人和弱视人士以及全球约 3 亿人来说可能是个好消息。在英国，95% 的盲人和弱视人士在三个月内曾与附近的障碍物相撞，其中三分之一受伤（RNIB，2017）。最有效的支持是导盲犬，但也有还不够。每 72 名符合资格的 VI 人士中，只有 1 人会收到导盲犬，因此很大一部分 VI 需要其他支持和指导。这就是 Theia 可以提供帮助的地方！我们正在开发一种设备，可以完成导盲犬的许多工作。然而，为了使我们的产品更有效并更快地将我们的产品推向市场，需要一个新的研发项目来研究不同的硬件配置，以降低设备成本、尺寸、重量和功耗要求，从而产生更加以用户为中心和可扩展的产品。