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Brain-Computer Interface meets ROS: A robotic approach to mentally drive telepresence robots

Beraldo, Gloria
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Antonello, Morris
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Cimolato, Andrea
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January 1, 2018
2018 Ieee International Conference On Robotics And Automation (Icra)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

This paper shows and evaluates a novel approach to integrate a non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) with the Robot Operating System (ROS) to mentally drive a telepresence robot. Controlling a mobile device by using human brain signals might improve the quality of life of people suffering from severe physical disabilities or elderly people who cannot move anymore. Thus, the BCI user can actively interact with relatives and friends located in different rooms thanks to a video streaming connection to the robot. To facilitate the control of the robot via BCI, we explore new ROS-based algorithms for navigation and obstacle avoidance in order to make the system safer and more reliable. In this regard, the robot exploits two maps of the environment, one for localization and one for navigation, and both are used as additional visual feedback for the BCI user to control the robot position. Experimental results show a decrease of the number of commands needed to complete the navigation task, suggesting a reduction user's cognitive workload. The novelty of this work is to provide a first evidence of an integration between BCI and ROS that can simplify and foster the development of software for BCI driven robotics devices.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460578
Web of Science ID

WOS:000446394503060

Author(s)
Beraldo, Gloria
Antonello, Morris
Cimolato, Andrea
Menegatti, Emanuele
Tonin, Luca  
Date Issued

2018-01-01

Publisher

IEEE COMPUTER SOC

Publisher place

Los Alamitos

Published in
2018 Ieee International Conference On Robotics And Automation (Icra)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5386-3081-5

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA

Start page

4459

End page

4464

Subjects

Automation & Control Systems

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Robotics

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rehabilitation

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people

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

May 21-25, 2018

Available on Infoscience
December 13, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/152907
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