MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641074448 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai on June 16, 2026, for Backpack-Mounted Navigation System.
Inventors include Ashvini Narendra Kulkarni; and Augusta Sophy Beulet P.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backpack-mounted navigation system (100) for guiding a user (110). The system (100) comprises a backpack (102), a LiDAR sensor (104) mounted on the backpack (102) for acquiring environmental scan data, an IMU sensor (106) mounted on the backpack (102) for acquiring motion and orientation data of the user (110), a user input unit (112) for receiving a navigation destination, a sensor fusion unit (202) coupled to the LiDAR sensor (104) and the IMU sensor (106) for generating fused state data representing a current position and orientation of the user (110) with respect to an occupancy map, a processing unit (204) for generating a hybrid navigation command, classifying surrounding navigation context into directional classes, applying a tiered navigation strategy, and generating a final movement command, and a user guidance unit (114) for converting the final movement command into an audio guidance instruction for the user (110)
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