Wayfinding Assistance via Mobile Robotics for People with Vision Impairments

This project is funded by an Illinois Campus Research Research Support Award to develop mobile robots to assist with wayfinding and navigation tasks for people with vision disabilities.  The goal is to make innovations in navigation, guidance, and coupled human-robot interaction to enable individuals with visual impairments to navigate in unknown spaces.  This interdisciplinary team combines engineering and human factors expertise, uniquely positioning us to effectively design and test this assistive robot technology.

Investigators:

  • Katherine Driggs-Campbell, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Professor Wendy Rogers, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Samuel A. Olatunji, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Livingston McPherson, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Yi Cao
  • Shujing Liu
  • Aamir Hasan
  • Megan A. Bayles
  • Maxwell Chan