Smart Wheelchairs and Brain-computer Interfaces: Mobile Assistive Technologies

Smart Wheelchairs and Brain-Computer Interfaces: Mobile Assistive Technologies combines the fields of neuroscience, rehabilitation and robotics via contributions from experts in their field to help readers develop new mobile assistive technologies. It provides information on robotics, control algorithm design for mobile robotics systems, ultrasonic and laser sensors for measurement and trajectory planning, and is ideal for researchers in BCI. A full view of this new field is presented, giving readers the current research in the field of smart wheelchairs, potential control mechanisms and human interfaces that covers mobility, particularly powered mobility, smart wheelchairs, particularly sensors, control mechanisms, and human interfaces.

Presents the first book that combines BCI and mobile roboticsFocuses on fundamentals and developments in assistive robotic devices which are commanded by alternative ways, such as the brainProvides an overview of the technologies that are already available to support research and the development of new products

1. Introduction chapter

Section 1: Disabilities and the Brain 2. People with Disabilities 3. The brain and the EEG, ECoG

Section 2: Brain-computer interfaces 4-6. Brain computer interfaces (BCI)

Section 3: Wheelchairs and robotics 7. Wheelchairs 8-9. Mobile robotics 10-11. Smart-wheelchairs

Section 4: Applications 12-13. Brain-computer interface commanding wheelchairs 14. Other technologies and smart-wheelchairs