Airborne Ultrasonic Tactile Display Brain-computer Interface -- A Small Robotic Arm Online Control Study
This work addresses the challenge of enhancing human-robot interaction for users needing non-invasive control methods, but it appears incremental as it extends an existing paradigm to a specific application.
The researchers tackled the problem of controlling a robotic arm using a contactless brain-computer interface based on airborne ultrasonic tactile displays, resulting in an online control application that builds on an award-winning paradigm from 2014.
We report on an extended robot control application of a contact-less and airborne ultrasonic tactile display (AUTD) stimulus-based brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigm, which received last year The Annual BCI Research Award 2014. In the award winning human communication augmentation paradigm the six palm positions are used to evoke somatosensory brain responses, in order to define a novel contactless tactile BCI. An example application of a small robot management is also presented in which the users control a small robot online.