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Authors:
Florian von Zabiensky
Grigory Fridman
Sebastian Reuter
Oguz Özdemir
Michael Kreutzer
Diethelm Bienhaus
Keywords: ETA, electronic travel aid, mobility aid, ROS 2, ROS, robot operating system, component-based development
Abstract:
Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) are devices that help people with visual impairments navigate and orient themselves. The development of such devices is often associated with a loss of time in repetitive work, resulting in slow progress in this field. A collaborative community that shares its expertise could accelerate this progress and lead to truly useful and market-ready products for visually impaired people. To make such an exchange efficient, a standardized, component-based ecosystem is required. So far, such an approach for ETAs has not been pursued in the literature and is therefore addressed in this paper. To this end, a model for identifying component boundaries is presented and illustrated by a project in the form of an ultra- wideband indoor navigation system. The advantages of such a component-based development in general are described. In particular, the use of the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) for the implementation is highlighted and its suitability for such an ecosystem is discussed based on practical experience with it.
Pages: 10 to 18
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: April 24, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2519-8378
ISBN: 978-1-68558-084-1
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023