Driving Electric Car by Using EMG Interface

This paper proposes a useful method driving the electric car by using EMG interface, which is used as living body interface. The EMG signal can be measured from all the people easily, even physically handicapped people, elderly and so on. The EMG signals are measured from both hand palms and neck using a simple electrode. In our interface, the effective frequency band of EMG signal is extracted to drive the electric car effectively. The extracted signal is converted to binary signal which drives differential motor. In the experiments that driving the electric car by using the proposed EMG interface, we used the SD method to evaluate of operation feeling and riding comfort. As a result, it is shown that the effective frequency band gives an influence on operation feeling and riding comfort