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Control of Linear Motors using Brain Signals

Bedir Halcı, İsmet Yıldırım and Osman Korkaç


Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract
卐 This project is about position control of linear motors with filtered and processed brain waves as controller signals. System can be
generalized with mechanical movement-limited stages in a sense that active control is realised with electromechanical relations.

Introduction
卐 Electricity is found throughout human body. But nowhere in the body has an electrical activity better than the brain, which contains
roughly a hundred billion electrically conductive, biological wires. The brain consumes approximately 20% of the body's energy. It
consumes energy at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body per gram of tissue. The average power consumption of a typical adult is
100 Watts and the brain consumes 20% of this making the power of the brain 20 W. There is a equation below to show that
scientifically based on a 2400 calorie diet.
卐 2400 "food calorie" = 2400 kcal → 2400 kcal/24 hr = 100 kcal/hr = 27.8 cal/sec = 116.38 J/s = 116 W → 20% x 116 W = 23.3 W

Motivation & Principles Logic & Circuitry


卐 It is known that some universities have a graduate degree about 卐 We designed a circuit to use signals from brain (after a specific
brain signal process and electricity and it is predictable that many filtration and elevation) as a controller input for linear machinery.
countries try to use that power, secretly or not. In October 2018,
scientists connected the brains of three people to experiment with
the process of thoughts sharing. Five groups of three people
participated in the experiment using EEG(electroencephalogram).
The success rate of the experiment was 81%. But that power did
not find out recently. According to the records, at the late of
nineteenth century, some scientist tried electroencephalography
on animals.
卐 An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that detects electrical
activity in a brain using small, metal discs (electrodes) attached
to your scalp. And its firstly used in human body by Hans Berger,
at the year 1924. Nowadays, an EEG is useful for detecting brain
tumour, brain damage from head injury, strokes, brain network
analysis, brain-to-brain interaction, neurorobotics and much
more. It can also determine changes in a brain activity to
understand sleep disorders. Below is an example of what an
EEG recording looks like.

References
† Andrzejak, R.G., Lehnertz, K., Mormann, F., Rieke, C., David, P., and Elger, C. E.(2001) ‘Indication of Non Linear Deterministic and
Finite-Dimensional Structures in Time Series of Brain Electrical Activity: Dependence on Recording Region and Brain State’, Physical
Review E, Vol. 64, 061907.
† Buzsaki, G. (2006) Rhythms of the brain, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
† U. Brahms. Regelung von Lineardirektantrieben fur Werkzeugmaschinen ¨ . PhD thesis, Universitat¨ Hannover, 1998. VDI-Verlag,
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