Motor Training Using Mental Workload (MWL) With an Assistive Soft Exoskeleton System: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study for Brain-Machine Interface (BMI).

ABSTRACT: Mental workload is a neuroergonomic human factor, which is widely used in planning a system's safety and areas like brain-machine interface (BMI), neurofeedback, and assistive technologies. Robotic prosthetics methodologies are employed for assisting hemiplegic patients in performing routine activities. Assistive technologies' design and operation are required to have an easy interface with the brain with fewer protocols, in an attempt to optimize mobility and autonomy. The possible answer to these design questions may lie in neuroergonomics coupled with BMI systems. In this study, two human factors are addressed: designing a lightweight wearable robotic exoskeleton hand that is used to assist the potential stroke patients with an integrated portable brain interface using mental workload (

SUBMITTER: Asgher U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8012849 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature