A Brain-Machine Interface Based on EEG: Extracted Alpha Waves Applied to Mobile Robot

Abstract

The increasing number of signal processing tools for highly parallel neurophysiological recordings opens up new avenues for connecting technologies directly to neuronal processes. As the understanding is taking a better shape, lot more work to perform is coming up. A simple brain-machine interface may be able to reestablish the broken loop of the persons with motor dysfunction. With time the brain-machine interfacing is growing more complex due to the increased availability of instruments and processes for implementation. In this work, as a proof-of-principle we established a brain-machine interface through a few simple processes to control a robotic device using the alpha wave’s event-related synchronization and event-related de-synchronization extracted from EEG.