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BrainControl helps disabled people to control objects with their minds.

Multiple sclerosis, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), ischemic or traumatic injury involves each year more than 3 million patients.
BrainControl is a breakthrough technology device that give disabled people the power to control objects with their minds, allowing them to control a communicator, domotics devices (lights, doors, windows, alarms, temperature, bed position, …), wheelchair.

Our brain is made up of approximately 100 billion neurons. When these neurons interact, the chemical reaction emits an electrical impulse which can be measured. We make use of EEG sensor that allow us to map some thoughts and use them to control objects.

The preliminary framework realized allow the control of the flight of an helicopter toy. We used a wireless headset with 14-channel EEG acquisition system.
It is made up of the following modules:
- The NeuroHeadset: a BCI headset based on electroencephalography (EEG) sensors for high resolution, neuro-signal acquisition. It also has a two-axis gyro for measuring head rotation.
- The BCI Control Unit: the control logic, running on a mobile device, able to manage the headset output and drive the actuators for specific applications.
- An actuator: a servomechanism used to provide sticks control of the control system provided with the helicopter toy.
- The target device to control: an helicopter toy.

With the BCI Control Unit developed, We can manage 12 kinds of conscious thoughts of movement (left, right, up, down, push, and pull, rotations, etc.). These can be used as a sort of mental joystick.

Demo videos

1 Minute Frontier of Interaction Conference 2011	15 minutes @ Geo&Geo

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