Guiding system for visually impaired running on a track

Sighted people can enjoy many social activities that the visually impaired are denied. Our project has the major goal to develop a guidance system: A real-time locating system (RTLS) based on radio signals guides runners with the highest level of safety by estimating the angle of arrival (AoA) and round-trip time (RTT). First results show the position accuracy of the proposed locating system with real-world data with a deviation of less than one metre. Thus we provide an enormous freedom for the visually impaired runners compared to the other solutions: Blind and sighted runners will have the opportunity to do sport together without another person`s assistance.
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Notations:strength and speed sports technical and natural sciences sports for the handicapped
Published in:Sports Science Research and Technology Support: Second International Congress, icSPORTS 2014, Rome, Italy, October 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language:English
Published: Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London Springer 2015
Series:Communications in Computer and Information Science, 556
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25249-0_6
Pages:71-84
Document types:book
Level:advanced