Brain Switch

This work was done in collaboration with the Rehabilitation Engineering Lab (REL) at the University of Toronto. The team used the algorithm developed for my PhD thesis to convert single thoughts or physiological signals into voluntary commands.

Media

video

Controlling an RC Car: The goal was to get the car to the blue bin and back using only brain waves.

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publications

  1. Màrquez-Chin C., Sanin E., Silva J., Popovic M. R., “Real-Time Two-Dimensional Asynchronous Control of a Remote-Controlled Car Using a Single Electroencephalographic Electrode,” Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. Vol. 14, No. 4, May 2009
  2. Silva J., Torres-Solís J., Chau T., and Mihailidis A., “A novel asynchronous access method with binary interfaces,” Journal of Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation. Vol. 5, No. 24, October 2008
  3. Silva J., Dzura M., Mihailidis A., and Chau T., “Single-Switch Navigation of Virtual 3-D Spaces,” in Proceedings of the 30th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Toronto ON, Canada, June 2007.
  4. Silva J., Dzura M., Mihailidis A., and Chau T., “A Theory of Asynchronous Control with Low Information Capacity Interfaces,” in Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Part 17, August 2006.