Evolutionary Synthesis of a Trajectory Integrator for an Analogue Brain-Computer Interface Mouse

Recently significant steps have been made towards effective EEG-based brain-computer interfaces for mouse control. A major obstacle in this line of research, however, is the integration of the noisy and contradictory information provided at each time step by the signal processing systems into a coherent and precise trajectory for the mouse pointer. In this paper we attack this difficult problem using genetic programming, obtaining extremely promising results.

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