A brain machine interface framework for exploring proactive control of smart environments.

ABSTRACT: Brain machine interfaces (BMIs) can substantially improve the quality of life of elderly or disabled people. However, performing complex action sequences with a BMI system is onerous because it requires issuing commands sequentially. Fundamentally different from this, we have designed a BMI system that reads out mental planning activity and issues commands in a proactive manner. To demonstrate this, we recorded brain activity from freely-moving monkeys performing an instructed task and decoded it with an energy-efficient, small and mobile field-programmable gate array hardware decoder triggering real-time action execution on smart devices. Core of this is an adaptive decoding algorithm that can compensate for the day-by-day neuronal signal fluctuations with minimal re-calibration effort. W

SUBMITTER: Braun JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11584623 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature