Cooperative Networking Approach to Assisting Blinds in a Crowd Using Air Trackers

Abstract

Air trackers such as AirTags and AirFinders have emerged as an alternative to image-and GPS-based positioning systems. On the other hand, adaptive cooperative networks have been found as powerful multi-agent adaptive systems which incorporate the information from the neighboring nodes (a.k. a. agents) in the adaptation or modelling process. Here, diffusion adaptation strategy is effectively used to exploit the positioning information from a group of blind people within a neighborhood in the crowd, collected by Air trackers, to best support them reaching their destinations.