Flying Quadrotors with Your Mind

Flying Quadrotors with Your Mind

A biomedical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota is developing tools to help people with disabilities. He and his team have developed a skull cap with 64 EEG sensors that is able to translate human thoughts into commands that can be acted upon to fly Quadrotors using your thoughts. This technology is intended to help people with disabilities do things like control wheelchairs, robotic arms, etc.

"Bin He, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, is developing tools to help people with disabilities. But part of that research involves some studies that look like pure fun. He and his students have developed a way to control the flight of a quadrotor using your mind.

“Our study shows that or the fist time, humans are able to control the flight of flying robots using just there thoughts sensed from a noninvasive skull cap,” says He.

Subjects wore a skull cap studded with 64 EEG sensors. Using special algorithms, data from the sensors were translated into commands for the robot. When a wearer thought about making a fist with one his left hand—but did not actually do it—the robot would flight left. Thinking about the right fist tilted sent the robot to the right. Both fists meant rise and then fall."

The full article is here:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/flying-quadrotors-with-your-mind