Coupled Indoor Navigation for People Who Are Blind

Amal Nanavati, Xiang Zhi Tan, Aaron Steinfeld

Abstract: This paper presents our design of an autonomous navigation system for a mobile robot that guides people who are blind and low vision in indoor settings. It begins by presenting user studies that shaped our design of the system, moves on to describing our model of human-robot coupled motion, and concludes by describing our autonomous navigation system.