title: Control of humanoid robot via motion-onset visual evoked potentials.
abstract: This paper investigates controlling humanoid robot behavior via motion-onset specific N200 potentials. In this study, N200 potentials are induced by moving a blue bar through robot images intuitively representing robot behaviors to be controlled with mind. We present the individual impact of each subject on N200 potentials and discuss how to deal with individuality to obtain a high accuracy. The study results document the off-line average accuracy of 93% for hitting targets across over five subjects, so we use this major component of the motion-onset visual evoked potential (mVEP) to code people's mental activities and to perform two types of on-line operation tasks: navigating a humanoid robot in an office environment with an obstacle and picking-up an object. We discuss the factors that affect the on-line control success rate and the total time for completing an on-line operation task.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, California State University Bakersfield, CA, USA ; School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Mengfan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
keywords: N200 potentials; brain robot interaction; humanoid robot behavior; mind-controlled humanoid robot; visual feedback