Underwater smart glasses: A visual-tactile fusion hazard detection system

Underwater smart glasses: A visual-tactile fusion hazard detection system

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Summary: Marine activities typically face various risk factors such as marine animal attacks or unexpected collisions.In this paper, we develop underwater smart glasses (USGs) based on visual-tactile fusion for underwater hazard detection in real-time, ensuring operational safety.The proposed USG is composed of the vision module by artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled optical sensing and the tactile module by here triboelectric metamaterials-enabled mechanical sensing.

The vision module is obtained based on the underwater target detection algorithm you only look once-underwater hazard (YOLO-UH) developed by the dataset to detect toxic marine organisms in the visual field.The tactile module is designed with the kirigami tribo-materials (KTMs) to sensitively detect and warn of collisions outside the visual field.Through numerical simulations, laboratory tests, and real-world experiments, we validated the performance of both modules.

The reported USG with chocolate chip cookie purse its visual-tactile fusion concept enables near-far all-around hazard detection and reduces the danger for divers working underwater.