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3rd International Business Servitization Conference

Daniel Vander Vorst International Projects dvandervorst@vicomtech.org

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Applied Research Centre, founded in 2001, specialising in

Computer Graphics, Visual Computing and Multimedia technologies

Location:

Paseo Mikeletegi 57 Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Gipuzkoa

20009 San Sebastian Spain

+[34] 943 30 92 30

About us

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+105 Staff

(28% Ph.D.)

PhD., engineers, computer

scientists, …. )

International Team

France, Germany, Colombia, Ireland,

Slovakia …

Ph.D…. From

(among others) Imperial College London (UK),

Cambridge University (UK), Manchester University– UMIST (UK), ETH Zurich (Switzerland),

Univerisy of Bordeaux (France), Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), Ohio

State University (USA), University of Navarre (Spain),

Basque Country University (Spain), Deusto University

(Spain)

Our team

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MARKET

INDUSTRY

APPLIED RESEARCH

BASIC RESEARCH

• Industrial legislation • Commercial nets • Product maintenance • Industrial product improvement

• Applied research • Technology Transfer

accelerator to industry • Market Dependant • Research under contract • Application prototypes

• Industrial product • Market needs • Technological competence • Industrial rules

• Basic research • No dependence on the market • University • Academic degrees

Our position in the market

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Practical examples and projects

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ARGUS Project: Assisting personal guidance system for people with visual impairment

FP7-ICT-2011-7

Duration: 34 Months

Start date: 01.10.2011

End date: 31.07.2014

http://www.projectargus.eu/

YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ArgusFP7

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ARGUS – Project overview

Motivation:

People with visual impairment require guidance support in outdoor activities.

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Motivation

GNSS technologies are being implemented in innovative personal navigation devices.

Track perception will allow blind people to imagine the geometry of the path and walk along it.

ARGUS – Project overview

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ARGUS - Objectives

Overall goal:

To develop a GNSS-based mobility service for people with impaired visually capabilities, to guide them along a pre-defined track, using acoustic and audio-haptic signals, which meets the level of accuracy and reliability they need in urban environment for improving their day-to-day life autonomy

Other outcomes:

• Develop innovative tools which could help blind and visually impaired people to move around autonomously and confidently. They could be used also by people working in low-visibility and hazardous conditions.

• Implementation of a user-friendly portable satellite-based navigation device with acoustic and haptic user interfaces enabling users to obtain a 3D spatial insight of their surrounding environment, and providing continuous assistance to follow a predefined path in urban, rural or natural areas.

• Retrieve benefits from navigation services to increase the level of positioning accuracy and reliability as well as the level of service availability.

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ARGUS Guidance Concept

The sequence of the bell rings allows any person to build a mental map of the path.

Although the sound is the same it is perceived in a different way depending on the distance and orientation

ARGUS PROPOSES 3D SOUND FOR GUIDANCE USING STEREO OUTPUT

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ARGUS Solution

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ARGUS Testing activities

Testing users: 28 end-users selected for final user tests (9 San Sebastian, 10

Soest, 9 Madrid).

Each user performed at least 2 trials (urban and suburban)

Testing Scenarios:

Urban Scenario:

• Urban guiding algorithm has been activated. • The user is able to correctly fulfill the navigation task. • The user interprets correctly the guiding 3D cues.

Suburban Scenario:

• The user interprets correctly the guiding 3D cues. • Special attention to the 180º turn. • Corridor 2m in some cases.

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AGRIPIR – Project overview

Results of the questionnaire

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Binauralguidancetraining

Initial setup User Terminalcomfort

Binauralnavigation

Nav. confort Safety features Tirednessevaluation

Generalimpression

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Other navigation related projects

TAXISAT (FP7): A new TAXI application guided by SATellite: Development of a driverless GNSS based taxi application

capable to operate cost effectively, safely and with a high reliability within private circumscribed sites whatever their topographic configurations are.

Take advantage of EGNOS and GALILEO capabilities, augmented by hybridization with COTS sensors (Visual-SLAM, odometers, gyroscope...).

AGRIPIR: Cross-border project aiming at increasing the value and preserving mountain agriculture across the Pyrenees.

Pilot project: e-Pasto Development and integration of virtual cattle fences in mountains. Real-time localisation of cattle in large mountain areas. User friendly interface providing geolocalisation data and information about the cattle.

Interaction solutions

testing

User interface

Geopositioning collars

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Thank you for your attention!

¡Muchas gracias por vuestra atención!

Eskerrik asko zuen arretagatik!

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