Non-Invasive Brain-Actuated Control of a Mobile Robot

Millán, José del R.; Renkens, Frédéric; Mouriño, Josep; Gerstner, Wulfram

Non-Invasive Brain-Actuated Control of a Mobile Robot

José del R. Millán, Frédéric Renkens, Josep Mouriño, Wulfram Gerstner

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Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1121-1125.

Abstract

Recent experiments have indicated the possibility to use the brain electrical activity to directly control the movement of robotics or prosthetic devices. In this paper we report results with a portable non-invasive brain-computer interface that makes possible the continuous control of a mobile robot in a house-like environment. The interface uses 8 surface electrodes to measure electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from which a statistical classifier recognizes 3 different mental states . Until now, brain-actuated control of robots has relied on invasive approachesrequiring surgical implantation of electrodessince EEG-based systems have been considered too slow for controlling rapid and complex sequences of movements. Here we show that, after a few days of training, two human subjects successfully moved a robot between several rooms by mental control only. Furthermore, mental control was only marginally worse than manual control on the same task.

José del R. Millán, Frédéric Renkens, Josep Mouriño, and Wulfram Gerstner. 2003. Non-Invasive Brain-Actuated Control of a Mobile Robot. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-03. IJCAI, 1121–1125. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/160

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