Brain Computer Interface: A Seminar On
Brain Computer Interface: A Seminar On
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Agenda
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Introduction
Brain-computer interface (BCI) is a fast-growing emergent technology, in which researchers aim to build a direct channel between the human brain and the computer. A Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a collaboration in which a brain accepts and controls a mechanical device as a natural part of its representation of the body. Computer-brain interfaces are designed to restore sensory function, transmit sensory information to the brain, or stimulate the brain through articially generated electrical signals.
BCI Model
Model
Early work
Algorithms to reconstruct movements from motor cortex neurons, which control movement, were developed in 1970s. The first Intra-Cortical Brain-Computer Interface was built by implanting electrodes into monkeys.
After conducting initial studies in rats during the 1990s, researchers developed Brain Computer Interfaces that decoded brain activity in monkeys and used the devices to reproduce movements in monkeys and used the devices to reproduce monkey movements in robotic arms.
How it works
BCI Approaches
Invasive
Invasive BCIs are implanted directly into the grey matter of the brain during neurosurgery. As they rest in the grey matter, invasive devices produce the highest quality signals of BCI devices but are prone to scartissue build-up, causing the signal to become weaker or even lost as the body reacts to a foreign object in the brain.
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) MEG detects the tiny magnetic fields created as individual neurons "fire" within the brain. It can pinpoint the active region with a millimeter, and can follow the movement of brain activity as it travels from region to region within the brain.
Applications
Provide disabled people with communication, environment
control, and movement restoration. Provide enhanced control of devices such as wheelchairs, vehicles, or assistance robots for people with disabilities. Provide additional channel of control in computer games.
Monitor attention in long-distance drivers or aircraft pilots, send out alert and warning for aircraft pilots.
Develop intelligent relaxation devices.
Applications
Control robots that function in dangerous or inhospitable situations (e.g., underwater or in extreme heat or cold).
Applications
Bionics/Cybernetics Memory Upload/Download Dream Capture Brain as a Computer Google Search through brain
Projects
BrainGate BCI2000 Australian Bionic Eye Honda Asimo Control
BrainGate
Gaming Control
Bionic Eye
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Conclusion
A potential therapeutic tool. BCI is an advancing technology promising paradigm shift in areas like Machine Control, Human Enhancement, Virtual reality and etc. So, its potentially high impact technology. Several potential applications of BCI hold promise for rehabilitation and improving performance, such as treating emotional disorders (for example, depression or anxiety), easing chronic pain, and overcoming movement disabilities due to stroke. Will enable us to achieve singularity very soon. Intense R&D in future to attain intuitive efficiency.
References
Sixto Ortiz Jr., "Brain-Computer Interfaces: Where Human and Machine Meet," Computer, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 17-21, Jan., 2007 F. Babiloni, A. Cichocki, and S. Gao, eds., special issue, BrainComputer Interfaces: Towards Practical Implementations and Potential Applications, ComputationalIntelligence and Neuroscience, 2007 P. Sajda, K-R. Mueller, and K.V. Shenoy, eds., special issue, Brain Computer Interfaces, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,Jan. 2008 The MIT Press Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing Wikipedia, HowStuffWorks and various other website sources
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