(18) Micro Robot Control by use of Electroencephalograms from Right Frontal Area
Takahiro Yamanoi, Hisashi Toyoshima, Toshimasa Yamazaki, Shin-ichi Ohnishi, Michio Sugeno, Elie Sanchez
Proc. The Third International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications (ISCIIA 2008) , pp.385-394, 2008-11
In order to develop a brain machine interface, the authors have investigated the brain activity during human recognition of characters and symbols representing directional meaning. The authors have recorded electroencephalograms (EEGs) from subjects viewing four types of Kanji (Chinese characters being used currently in the Japanese language) and arrows that were presented on a CRT. Each of the four characters or symbols denoted direction for upward, downward, leftward and rightward, respectively. Subjects were asked to read the characters or symbols, silently. EEGs were averaged for each stimulus type and direction, and event related potentials (ERPs) were obtained. The equivalent current dipole source localization (ECDL) method has been applied to these ERPs. In both cases, ECDs were localized to areas related to the working memory for spatial perception, such as the right upper or the right middle frontal areas. Taking into account these facts, the authors investigated a single trial EEGs of the subject precisely after the latency at 400ms, and determined effective sampling latencies for the discriminant analysis to four types of arrow: ↑, ↓, ← and →. We sampled EEG data at latency from 400ms to 900ms at 25ms interval by the three channels in the right upper and the right middle frontal gyri. Results of the discriminant analysis for four type objective variates, discriminant rates were mostly more than 80 %. By four type code of infrared rays according to the discrimination results from a PC, the authors have controlled a micro robot the e-puck in four orders; forward, rotate clockwise, rotate counterclockwise and stop. The paper won the Excellent Paper Award at the conference.
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