Commanding a Brain-Controlled Wheelchair Using Steady-State Somatosensory Evoked Potentials
- Authors
- Kim, Keun-Tae; Suk, Heung-Il; Lee, Seong-Whan
- Issue Date
- 3월-2018
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- Keywords
- Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs); brain-controlled wheelchair; electroencephalography (EEG); steady-state somatosensory evoked potential (SSSEP); motor imagery (MI)
- Citation
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING, v.26, no.3, pp.654 - 665
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
- Volume
- 26
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 654
- End Page
- 665
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/76871
- DOI
- 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2597854
- ISSN
- 1534-4320
- Abstract
- In this work, we propose a novel brain-controlled wheelchair, one of the major applications of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), that allows an individual with mobility impairments to perform daily living activities independently. Specifically, we propose to use a steady-state somatosensory evoked potential (SSSEP) paradigm, which elicits brain responses to tactile stimulation of specific frequencies, for a user's intention to control a wheelchair. In our system, a user had three possible commands by concentrating on one of three vibration stimuli, which were attached to the left-hand, right-hand, and right-foot, to selectively control the wheelchair. The three stimuli were associated with three wheelchair commands: turn-left, turn-right, and move-forward. From a machine learning perspective, we also devise a novel feature representation by combining spatial and spectral characteristics of brain signals. In order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed SSSEP-based system, we considered two different tasks: 1) a simple obstacle-avoidance task within a limited time and; 2) a driving task along the predefined trajectory of about 40 m length, where there were a narrow pathway, a door, and obstacles. In both experiments, we recruited 12 subjects and compared the average time of motor imagery (MI) and SSSEP-based controls to complete the task. With the SSSEP-based control, all subjects successfully completed the task without making any collision while four subjects failed it with MI-based control. It is also noteworthy that in terms of the average time to complete the task, the SSSEP-based control outperformed the MI-based control. In the other more challenging task, all subjects successfully reached the target location.
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