Construction of real-time BMI control system based on motor imagery

Author

Yoshioka, Masataka ; Zhu, Chi ; Yoshikawa, Youichiro ; Nishikawa, Tomohiro ; Shimazu, Shota ; Imamura, Kazuyuki ; Wang, Feng ; Yu, Haoyong ; Yan, Yuling

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Life Eng., Maebashi Inst. of Technol., Maebashi, Japan

fYear

2011

Firstpage

198

Lastpage

203

Abstract

Recently, a lot of BMIs (Brain-Machine Interfaces) using EEG (electroencephalogram) signals are developed to control external devices such as prostheses and robots. In this paper, in order to develop a new BMI for rehabilitation and/or power support, four different tasks corresponding to different brain excitation degrees are designed. Their EEG spectra are analyzed with short-time FFT, and their features of mu and beta rhythms corresponding to the different tasks are extracted. Finally, one-joint robot arm is controlled by the extracted features, and the proposed approach is confirmed.

Keywords

brain-computer interfaces; electroencephalography; fast Fourier transforms; medical robotics; medical signal processing; patient rehabilitation; EEG signals; brain-machine interfaces; electroencephalogram signals; motor imagery; one-joint robot arm; real-time BMI control system; rehabilitation; short-time FFT; Electrodes; Electroencephalography; Feature extraction; Real time systems; Robot sensing systems; Time frequency analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Karon Beach, Phuket

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2136-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181285

Filename

6181285