%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Thursday 21 November 2024 12:50:00 PM @INPROCEEDINGS{millan:2003:ijcai, author = {Mill{\'{a}}n, Jos{\'{e}} del R. and Renkens, F. and Mouri{\~{n}}o, J. and Gerstner, W.}, projects = {Idiap}, month = {8}, title = {Non-Invasive Brain-Actuated Control of a Mobile Robot}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2003}, address = {Acapulco, Mexico}, abstract = {Recent experiments have shown the near possibility to use the brain electrical activity to directly control the movement of robotics or prosthetic devices. In this paper we report results with a portable non-invasive brain-computer interface that makes possible the continuous control of a mobile robot in a house-like environment. The interface uses 8 surface electrodes to measure electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from which a statistical classifier recognizes 3 different mental states. Until now, brain-actuated control of robots has relied on invasive approaches-requiring surgical implantation of electrodes-since EEG-based systems have been considered too slow for controlling rapid and complex sequences of movements. Here we show that, after a few days of training, two human subjects successfully moved a robot between several rooms by mental control only. Furthermore, mental control was only marginally worse than manual control on the same task.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2003/millan_2003_ijcai.pdf}, ipdmembership={learning}, }