Bedir Halcı, İsmet Yıldırım and Osman Korkaç: Control of Linear Motors Using Brain Signals
Bedir Halcı, İsmet Yıldırım and Osman Korkaç: Control of Linear Motors Using Brain Signals
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
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