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Control of speed and direction of electric wheelchair using seat pressure mapping

Hori J., Ohara H., Inayoshi S.

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

2018

Vol. 38, no. 3

624--633

An electric wheelchair controlled through seat pressure mapping was developed to accomplish hands-free operation. The seat pressure mapping resulting from a change in posture was measured using a pressure sensor array seated on the wheelchair in real time. The movements of the upper body were discriminated using template matching. The speed and direction can be controlled based on the similarities between the measured pressure distribution and five templates of neutral, forward, backward, left, and right movements. The developed interface was built into a commercial electric wheelchair. As the results of an experiment show, the proposed wheelchair can be controlled in any direction and velocity.

Classification of tactile event-related potential elicited by Braille display for brain-computer interface

Hori J., Okada N.

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

2017

Vol. 37, no. 1

135--142

To construct brain–computer interface (BCI), an event-related potential (ERP) induced by a tactile stimulus is investigated in this paper. For ERP-based BCI, visual or auditory information is frequently used as the stimulus. In the present study, we focus on tactile sensations to reserve their visual and auditory senses for other activities. Several patterns of mechanical tactile stimulation were applied to the index fingers of both hands using two piezo actuators that were used as a braille display. Human experiments based on the oddball paradigm were carried out. Subjects were instructed to pay attention to unusual target stimuli while avoiding other frequent non-target stimuli. The extracted features were classified by applying stepwise linear discriminant analysis. As a result, an accuracy of 85% and 60% were obtained for 2- and 4-class classification, respectively. The accuracy was improved by increasing the number of electrodes even when short stimulus intervals were used.