Zhengtai Gou

Navigating Real-World Challenges: A Quadruped Robot Guiding System for Visually Impaired People in Diverse Environments

Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) people find challenges in navigating unfamiliar environments, even using assistive tools such as white canes or smart devices. Increasingly affordable quadruped robots offer us opportunities to design autonomous guides that could improve how BVI people find ways around unfamiliar envi…