Mapper Garment

Project Description:

Design, simulation and prototype development of a wearable e-textile mapper garment.

Goals:

The goal of this project is to model and create a mapper garment which is capable of mapping out the floorplan of the building through which the user walks. The garment makes use of ultrasonic transducers for the same. The first phase of the project is to simulate the mapper garment to achieve an optimal configuration and the second phase of the project is to construct a physical prototype of the mapper garment.

Images:

	The 3-D empty and the occupied probability map of a single transducer facing right.
	The probability of the space being empty in a square room shown in 3-D.
	The probability of the space being occupied in a sqaure room shown in 3-D.
	The map drawn of a square room.
	The map drawn of a pair of rooms.
	An ultrasonic sensor.

Student Reports:

• Madhup Chandra, Shekhar Agrawal Sharad, William O. Plymale, "Ultrasonic Mapper Garment," Virginia Tech ECE 5984, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing, Dr. Thomas Martin, Sring 2003.