Intelligent Glasses: A New Man-Machine Interface Concept Integrating Computer Vision and Human Tactile Perception

Abstract

This paper introduces a new re-programmable interface concept, the Intelligent Glasses (IG): an association of physiological human inspired machine vision and tactile stimulation for 3D (static and dynamic) world representation. The IG interface concept is used to design a wearable system to facilitate navigation and assist mobility of the low vision/sightless in 3D non-cooperating environments at the Robotics Laboratory of Paris (LRP) and the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Being a re-programmable concept, the IG can be easily transferred to any system used in situations of limited or absent vision and/or systems requiring concise and high speed information representation (such as intelligent mobile robotics systems, surgical robotics, virtual reality, highly reactive interfaces, physiological studies of human perception systems, ..).