Room Navigator

Project Overview

Description

The goal of this project is to provide a way to aid the blind and blind-deaf in navigating through a room. Our goal is to create a device and a sensor that will help lead the blind and blind-deaf to devices or objectives, such as a door or help them find their phone. There will be some device that helps triangulate the position of the person in the room and uses that to measure the distance away from the objective. Also, there will be a way for a blind or blind-deaf person to understand which direction they need to move to reach the objective.

Team Members

Alexander Armour
Neal Bansal
Elizabeth Gikas
Nate Schmettre (TA)
Jim Feher (instructor)

Challenges

Finding a way to accurately calculate position in a room

• Do we use bluetooth, FM radio arduino module, or infrared sensors?
• These methods will tell us how strong the signal is. How do we compute distance in a room from the signal strength?

Providing output to the user that is easy to follow

• Is changing intensity of vibration enough to lead them in the right direction?

Learning new coding skills

• Coding the Arduino, FM module, and motors

Security

• Blind people would rely heavily on this device. How do we ensure it cannot be hacked into and tampered with?

Gantt Chart

Link to weekly log