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A Brain Controlled Wheelchair to Navigate in Familiar Environments

This paper describes the first electroencephalogram-controlled wheelchair to manoeuvre in an indoor environment. It provides a systematic comparison of dedicated control methods using different brain modalities, and describes the development and demonstration of strategies that safely and efficiently guide the wheelchair. The work was featured on Channel U (Mediacorp, Singapore) and has had substantial academic influence - it was covered in five reviews last year alone, e.g. one by the brain-computer-interface pioneer Wolpaw (Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2012;87:268-279). It was carried out by my PhD student (Rebsamen) as part of a UK-Singapore collaboration, using algorithms developed with the second author’s group.