Pseudo-Online BMI Based on EEG to Detect the Appearance of Sudden Obstacles during Walking

The aim of this paper is to describe new methods for detecting the appearance of unexpected obstacles during normal gait from EEG signals, improving the accuracy and reducing the false positive rate obtained in previous studies. This way, an exoskeleton for rehabilitation or assistance of people wit...

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Autores: Elvira, María, Láñez, E., Quiles Zamora, Vicente, Ortiz, Mario, Azorín Poveda, José María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
Repositorio:REDIUMH. Depósito Digital de la UMH
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.umh.es:11000/6023
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11000/6023
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Brain-Machine Interface (BMI)
EEG
obstacle
gait
Ingeniería. Tecnología
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to describe new methods for detecting the appearance of unexpected obstacles during normal gait from EEG signals, improving the accuracy and reducing the false positive rate obtained in previous studies. This way, an exoskeleton for rehabilitation or assistance of people with motor limitations commanded by a Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) could be stopped in case that an obstacle suddenly appears during walking. The EEG data of nine healthy subjects were collected during their normal gait while an obstacle appearance was simulated by the projection of a laser line in a random pattern. Different approaches were considered for selecting the parameters of the BMI: subsets of electrodes, time windows and classifier probabilities, which were based on a linear discriminant analysis (LDA). The pseudo-online results of the BMI for detecting the appearance of obstacles, with an average percentage of 63.9% of accuracy and 2.6 false positives per minute, showed a significant improvement over previous studies