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The Role of the Control Framework for Continuous Teleoperation of a Brain-Machine Interface-Driven Mobile Robot

Tonin, Luca
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Bauer, Felix Christian
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Millan, Jose del R.  
February 1, 2020
Ieee Transactions On Robotics

Despite the growing interest in brain-machine interface (BMI)-driven neuroprostheses, the translation of the BMI output into a suitable control signal for the robotic device is often neglected. In this article, we propose a novel control approach based on dynamical systems that was explicitly designed to take into account the nature of the BMI output that actively supports the user in delivering real-valued commands to the device and, at the same time, reduces the false positive rate. We hypothesize that such a control framework would allow users to continuously drive a mobile robot and it would enhance the navigation performance. 13 healthy users evaluated the system during three experimental sessions. Users exploit a 2-class motor imagery BMI to drive the robot to five targets in two experimental conditions: with a discrete control strategy, traditionally exploited in the BMI field, and with the novel continuous control framework developed herein. Experimental results show that the new approach: 1) allows users to continuously drive the mobile robot via BMI; 2) leads to significant improvements in the navigation performance; and 3) promotes a better coupling between user and robot. These results highlight the importance of designing a suitable control framework to improve the performance and the reliability of BMI-driven neurorobotic devices.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TRO.2019.2943072
Web of Science ID

WOS:000526526500006

Author(s)
Tonin, Luca
Bauer, Felix Christian
Millan, Jose del R.  
Date Issued

2020-02-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Robotics
Volume

36

Issue

1

Start page

78

End page

91

Subjects

Robotics

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Robotics

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decoding

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electroencephalography

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task analysis

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mobile robots

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navigation

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performance evaluation

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brain-machine interface (bmi)

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control framework

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motor imagery (mi)

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neurorobotics

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computer interfaces

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autonomous robotics

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actuated wheelchair

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motor imagery

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desynchronization

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REVIEWED

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