Activation of a mobile robot through a brain computer interface

- This work presents the development of a brain computer interface as an alternative communication channel to be used in Robotics. It encompasses the implementation of an electroencephalograph (EEG), as well as the development of all computational methods and necessary techniques to identify mental activities. The developed brain computer interface (BCI) is applied to activate the movements of a 120lb mobile robot, associating four different mental activities to robot commands. The interface is based on EEG signal analyses, which extract features that can be classified as specific mental activities. First, a signal preprocessing is performed from the EEG data, filtering noise, using a spatial filter to increase the scalp signal resolution, and extracting relevant features. Then, different classifier models are proposed, evaluated and compared. At last, two implementations of the developed classifiers are proposed to improve the rate of successful commands to the mobile robot. In one of...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Alexandre Ormiga Galvão Barbosa, David Ronald Achanccaray, Marco A. Meggiolaro
• Keywords: Alternative Communication Channel, ICRA 2010, Mental Activities, Mobile Robot, Robotics