Term of Award

Summer 2018

Degree Name

Master of Science in Applied Engineering (M.S.A.E.)

Document Type and Release Option

Thesis (restricted to Georgia Southern)

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Committee Chair

Biswanath Samanta

Committee Member 1

Minchul Shin

Committee Member 2

JungHun Choi

Abstract

A study is presented on brain computer interface (BCI) using motor imagery (MI) and facial expressions to control a mobile robot. Traditionally, only MI signals are used in BCI applications. In this work a hybrid approach of using both MI and facial expression stimulations for BCI is proposed. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals were acquired using a sensor system and processed for several MI and facial expressions to extract characteristic features. The features were used to train support vector machine (SVM) based classifiers and the trained classifiers were used to recognize test signals for correct identification of MI and facial expressions. A system was developed to implement the BCI using MI and facial expressions to control a mobile robot. Results of training using MI and facial expressions, individually and together are presented for comparison. The combined features from MI and facial expression stimulations were found to give better performance than MI only and quite close to using facial expressions.

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