Asynchronous brain machine interface-based control of a wheelchair

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2011:696:565-72. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7046-6_57.

Abstract

A brain machine interface (BMI) design for controlling the navigation of a power wheelchair is proposed. Real-time experiments with four able bodied subjects are carried out using the BMI-controlled wheelchair. The BMI is based on only two electrodes and operated by motor imagery of four states. A recurrent neural classifier is proposed for the classification of the four mental states. The real-time experiment results of four subjects are reported and problems emerging from asynchronous control are discussed.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Brain / physiology
  • Computational Biology
  • Computer Systems
  • Electroencephalography
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Man-Machine Systems*
  • Nervous System Diseases / rehabilitation
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Wheelchairs*