Research on SSVEP-Based Controlling System of Multi-DoF Manipulator

Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) rapidly becomes a practical signal of brain-computer interface system due to the advantage of high transmission rate and short training time. A SSVEP-Based controlling system of multi-dof manipulator is presented in this paper on the basis of virtual instruments. In this system, the ssvep-based electroencephalogram(EEG) was derived from scalp and then translated to several controlling commands of manipulator. In order to improve the performance of the system, the wavelet transform and Short-time Fourier Transform were used in signal processing. The experiment results have proved the effectiveness of the proposed method. The realization of the system can provide a new way to the using of robot-assisted in space based on BCI.

[1]  G. Pfurtscheller,et al.  Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication and Control. , 2011, Communications of the ACM.

[2]  Li Zhao,et al.  Service Robot System Based on Brain-computer Interface Technology , 2007, Third International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2007).

[3]  Ah Chung Tsoi,et al.  Classification of EEG signals using the wavelet transform , 1997, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing.

[4]  Stéphane Mallat,et al.  A Theory for Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: The Wavelet Representation , 1989, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[5]  William Z Rymer,et al.  Guest Editorial Brain–Computer Interface Technology: A Review of the Second International Meeting , 2001 .