Operation assistance for the Bio-Remote environmental control system using a Bayesian Network-based prediction model

This paper proposes a Bayesian Network (BN) based prediction model for a layer-based selection and its application to an operation assistance for the environmental control system Bio-Remote (BR). In the proposed method, each node of the BN model is involved in the layer-based selection function, which corresponds to an individual operation command, appliance, etc., and previous logs of operation commands and time division are used as input factors to predict the user´s intended operation. The prediction results are displayed on the layer-based selection for the BR, and the number of times of operations and time taken for the operations can be reduced with the proposed prediction model. In the experiments, life-logs were collected from a cervical spinal injury patient who used the BR in daily life, and the proposed model was trained based on these recorded life-logs. The prediction accuracy for control devices of the BR system using the proposed model was 84.3 ± 6.5 %. The results indicated that the proposed prediction model could be useful for the operation assistance of the BR system.