Brain switch mode: an alternative to drive a brain-controlled wheelchair
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To date, different control paradigms of low level navigation have been tested for brain-controlled wheelchairs, mainly divided into continuous or discrete control [1]. However, these paradigms have certain drawbacks such as the need to keep the mental tasks active for a long time, as in continuous mode, or the impossibility to freely choose any distance of the movement or the turn, as in the discrete mode. An alternative paradigm to solve these problems could be the use of the brain switch mode [2], which would allow a more flexible control of the distance, requiring a lower workload for the user.
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Brain switch mode: an alternative to drive a braincontrolled wheelchair Álvaro Fernández-Rodríguez, Francisco Velasco-Álvarez and Ricardo Ron-Angevin [email protected], [email protected] and rr[email protected] Department of Electronic Technology, ETSI Telecomunicación, University of Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain. Abstract To date, different control paradigms of low level navigation have been tested for braincontrolled wheelchairs, mainly divided into continuous or discrete control [1]. However, these paradigms have certain drawbacks such as the need to keep the mental tasks active for a long time, as in continuous mode, or the impossibility to freely choose any distance of the movement or the turn, as in the discrete mode. An alternative paradigm to solve these problems could be the use of the brain switch mode [2], which would allow a more flexible control of the distance, requiring a lower workload for the user. Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the projects LICOM (DPI2015-67064-R) and INCADI (TEC2011-26395), by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and by the University of Málaga (Universidad de Málaga) References [1] Á. Fernández-Rodríguez, F. Velasco-Álvarez, and R. Ron-Angevin, “Review of real brain-controlled wheelchairs,” J. Neural Eng., vol. 13, no. 6, p. 61001, 2016. [2] T. Solis-Escalante, G. Müller-Putz, C. Brunner, V. Kaiser, and G. Pfurtscheller, “Analysis of sensorimotor rhythms for the implementation of a brain switch for healthy subjects,” Biomed. Signal Process. Control, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 15–20, 2010.