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Un bastón inteligente integrado en IA asequible para la asistencia de movilidad multimodal de usuarios con discapacidad visual

arXiv: 2609.22277v1Tipo de anuncio: cruz Resumen: La discapacidad visual afecta a más de 2.200 millones de personas en todo el mundo, sin embargo, los bastones blancos convencionales no pueden detectar peligros elevados ni proporcionar un contexto ambiental semántico. Existi

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arXiv:2609.22277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual impairment affects over 2.2 billion people worldwide, yet conventional white canes cannot detect elevated hazards or provide semantic environmental context. Existing AI-assisted navigation systems typically rely on expensive hardware or cloud connectivity, limiting accessibility in resource-constrained settings. This paper presents an affordable (\$88 USD), fully offline AI-integrated smart cane designed for multimodal mobility assistance on an ultra-low-power Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. The system fuses RGB vision sensing with Time-of-Flight (ToF) distance estimation, pairing an INT8-quantized SSD MobileNet V1 model with distance-aware vibrotactile feedback and real-time audio alerts. To ensure operational robustness on constrained hardware, a multiprocessing architecture isolates sensor acquisition, neural inference, and haptic