A framework for user aware route selection in pedestrian navigation system

• Published in: 2010 2nd International Symposium on Aware Computing pp. 150 - 153
• Main Authors: Chakraborty, B, Hashimoto, T
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: IEEE 01.11.2010
• Subjects: Buildings; Navigation; USA Councils
• ISBN: 1424483131; 9781424483136
• DOI: 10.1109/ISAC.2010.5670466

With the help of fast and cheap information technology GPS navigators for car navigation are becoming very common. But unlike vehicle users, pedestrians form a more heterogeneous group having different levels of physical abilities with varieties of conditions, personal preferences and needs. The lack of data to support pedestrian navigation also imposes a harder challenge to design generalized navigation system for pedestrians, specially elders and persons with disability. In this work a framework for an user aware pedestrian navigation system is designed in which a fuzzy set theory based algorithm is proposed to analyze the user's requirement from the linguistic expression within limited vocabulary and a genetic algorithm is proposed to generate multiple alternate near optimal routes according to user's need. The optimal route can be decided by user from the options by an interactive mode. A simple simulation experiment has been done to study the feasibility of the development of an user aware, flexible pedestrian navigation system.