Abstract
Electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for wheelchair control have great value for those with devastating neuromuscular disorders. Although there have been many attempts to implement EEG-based wheelchair control systems by P300, steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), and motor imagery (MI) related event-related desynchronization/synchronization (ERD/ERS), the number of simultaneous control commands in those BCI systems is strictly limited, and those BCI control do not work for a non-negligible portion of users due to the problem of BCI Illiteracy.
In this paper, we develop a multimodal BCI based wheelchair control system, the user could employ subject-optimized mental strategies to produce multiple commands to control the wheelchair, which include ERD/ERS, SSVEP, and simultaneous ERD/ERS and SSVEP. It could not only help address ”BCI illiteracy”, but also provide simultaneous control commands for complex control. Experiment results demonstrate the proposed system is effective and flexible in practical application.
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Li, J., Ji, H., Cao, L., Gu, R., Xia, B., Huang, Y. (2013). Wheelchair Control Based on Multimodal Brain-Computer Interfaces. In: Lee, M., Hirose, A., Hou, ZG., Kil, R.M. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-42054-2_54
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