Brain Computer Interface
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Raunak Kumar, a third-year Electrical Engineering student at NIT Raipur, is developing a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) project aimed at restoring cognitive and sensory motor functions through a microcontroller-based decision system. The project involves multiple stages, including data acquisition, signal filtering, and processing to generate outputs for assisting individuals with disabilities. By replacing or augmenting damaged senses, the BCI intends to enhance quality of life and could pave the way for innovations in mind-controlled robotics and industrial automation.
Brain Computer Interface
- 1. Name: Raunak Kumar E-mail: raunak2311@gmail.com Twitter Id: @raunak_2311 University: NIT Raipur Year/Semester: 3rd year/ 6th Sem Branch: Electrical Engineering Brain Computer interface
- 2. INTRODUCTION A BCI, Brain Computer interface, sometimes called Mind Machine Interface is a direct communication between brain and an external device which assists in repairing human cognitive or sensory motor function. The field of BCI research focuses primarily on neural prosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing, sight and movement. This project aims to build a automated microcontroller based decision system which creates a BCI.
- 3. The project will comprise of following stages: 1. Biomedical data acquisition 2. Filtering the signals to remove noise 3. Feeding of signals to microcontroller 4. Processing of signals or Decision making by microcontroller 5. Generating required output.
- 4. BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT The project can be understood as a multi-stage hybrid (analog and digital) process, where biomedical signals are acquired and converted to the form accepted by the microcontroller, which process the input and generates output, as per the input, and then the output is fed respectively to the required electrical devices. The electrical devices will substitute a motor, sensory or cognitive modality that might have been damaged as a result of an injury or a disease. Through the replacement or augmentation of damaged senses, these devices intend to improve the quality of life for those with disabilities.
- 5. THANK YOU Interest Areas: O Due to involvement with microcontroller based projects I have grown much interest in working with it. My area of interest lies in programming and control of the actuators substituting a motor, sensory or cognitive modality. O As microcontroller is compact, so this product which creates BCI, will be portable and hence more influential and effective. This would be an innovative approach. O If provided a chance, I would like to prepare this product which would renovate the life of any disabled. On the other hand it will also prepare mind controlled robots which will be a great leap for the industrial automation. To understand brain signals we will require proper database management and for high speed comparison IT and analytical tools will be needed. This project involves interfacing with different hardware which requires programming mostly in C and assembly language. This could be an interdisciplinary project beneficial to both company and the intern.