Author(s)

Rajesh Singla, Balraj Gupta

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Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar-144011, India.

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are developed to help locked-in patients, who lose control of their bodies and are unable to perform simple tasks such as speech, locomotion, and can’t even effectively interact, with their environment. BCI shows promise in allowing these individuals to interact with a computer using EEG. A Brain Computer Interface is a communication system in which messages or commands that an indi-vidual sends to the external world do not pass through the brain’s normal output pathways of peripheral nerves and muscles. A system is created to allow individuals with motor disabili-ties to control the motion of the bed on which they are bedridden via BCI for drug delivery and other activities, with the help of eye motion and changes in the absolute power in alpha rhythms of an EEG signal of the patient.

BCI, eye events, EEG, Lab VIEW

Singla, R. and Gupta, B. (2008) Brain initiated interaction. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 1, 170-172. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2008.13028.