Design of differential Near-Infrared Spectroscopy based Brain Machine Interface

Author

Matsuyama, H. ; Asama, H. ; Otake, M.

Author_Institution

Center for Eng., Res. into Artifacts, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

Sept. 27 2009-Oct. 2 2009

Firstpage

775

Lastpage

780

Abstract

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive technology for measuring brain activity. Recently, the number of research papers on brain machine interface (BMI) based on NIRS technology is increasing. NIRS is a safe and convenient technique but its measurement results are unstable. To improve reliability of NIRS-based BMI, methods to extract stable data from NIRS signals are necessary. This paper describes a reliable NIRS-based BMI system we have developed. The feasibility of the method was demonstrated through generating motion of a humanoid robot.

Keywords

bio-optics; brain; brain-computer interfaces; humanoid robots; infrared spectroscopy; brain activity; brain-machine interface; differential near-infrared spectroscopy; humanoid robot; Application software; Brain modeling; Communication system control; Educational technology; Electric variables measurement; Electroencephalography; Humanoid robots; Positron emission tomography; Robot control; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009. RO-MAN 2009. The 18th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toyama

ISSN

1944-9445

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5081-7

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9445

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326215

Filename

5326215