CYBATHLON Vision Assistance Race (VIS)
One of the two new disciplines in the CYBATHLON competition! People with severe visual impairment or complete loss of vision lack the most basic information about their environment, which limits their autonomy in completing many activities of daily living. Simple situations such as selecting colour-matching clothes or identifying a desired product in the supermarket can become a challenge.
The competition tasks will include elements of spatial orientation and personal mobility, such as boarding and leaving a public bus, which must be tackled under a time constraint. Pilots have to be able to recognise the context of a task and avoid obstacles. Some of the competition tasks will contain dynamic elements to which the pilots have to react.