Eye Cane

The Eye Cane is a cane designed for people with walking disabilities to allow them to anticipate obstacles by using tactile and auditory output to detect distance estimation and angles. This aid out-performs the traditional White Cane for tasks such as distance estimation, navigation, and obstacle detection. It circumvents the technical pitfalls of other devices, such as weight, short battery life, complex interface schemes, and slow learning curve. It implements multiple beams to enables detection of obstacles at different heights, and narrow beams to provide active sensing that can potentially increase the user's spatial perception of the environment.