A common issue faced by people who are visually impaired is the difficulty of navigating andudtraveling through unfamiliar outdoor and indoor environments. The current state-of-the-artudsolutions to this problem consist of very expensive guide dogs and simple canes for obstacleuddetection. The team sought to develop a LIDAR-based navigation system with binaural auditoryudfeedback that would allow the blind to navigate in unfamiliar environments and perform basicudobstacle avoidance. Though basic auditory feedback relating to environmental obstacles wasuddeveloped, further work is necessary to fine-tune the system and to determine the practicality ofudthe device.
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