Motor prediction in Brain-Computer Interfaces for controlling mobile robots

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008:2008:634-7. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649232.

Abstract

EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) can be regarded as a new channel for motor control except that it does not involve muscles. Normal neuromuscular motor control has two fundamental components: (1) to control the body, and (2) to predict the consequences of the control command, which is called motor prediction. In this study, after training with a specially designed BCI paradigm based on motor imagery, two subjects learnt to predict the time course of some features of the EEG signals. It is shown that, with this newly-obtained motor prediction skill, subjects can use motor imagery of feet to directly control a mobile robot to avoid obstacles and reach a small target in a time-critical scenario.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Electroencephalography / methods*
  • Evoked Potentials, Motor / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Imagination / physiology*
  • Man-Machine Systems
  • Motor Cortex / physiology*
  • Movement / physiology*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods
  • Robotics / methods*
  • User-Computer Interface*