EEG-based detection of driving fatigue using a novel electrode

Abstract

In view of the serious harm caused by driving fatigue, this paper investigated driving fatigue detection based on electroencephalogram (EEG) features, designed a novel semi-dry electrode for acquisitioning drivers' EEG signals, and performed refined composite multiscale fluctuation dispersion entropy (RCMFDE) feature extraction of the θ and β bands rhythm signals in the acquisitioned EEG signals. The research results showed that the novel semi-dry electrode designed in this paper had the advantages of convenient replenishment of conductive liquid, early warning of insufficient conductive liquid, comfortable to wear compared with the traditional wet and dry electrodes under the premise of being able to collect EEG signals with qualified quality. And compared with traditional methods such as multiscale sample entropy (MSE), multiscale permutation entropy (MPE), multiscale symbolic dynamic entropy (MSDE), multiscale dispersion entropy (MDE), and refined composite multiscale dispersion entropy (RCMDE), the EEG features extracted by the RCMFDE method in this paper have a more obvious fatigue feature tendency, and thus can identify the driving fatigue state more effectively.