EEG Controlled Exoskeleton

Abstract

A physically paralyzed person is doomed to stay on a chair or the bed making him completely at mercy of a helper. To help these patients this device uses a Brain Computer Interface (BCI). A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a computer-based system that acquires brain signals, analyses them, and translates them into commands that are relayed to an output device to carry out a desired action. In principle, any type of brain signal could be used to control a BCI system. This device is an Exoskeleton made of steel/iron that will be attached the Patient who is Physically Paralyzed. An exoskeleton is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human. It will give support to the Patient while standing up so that he/she doesn’t fall down. The Brainwaves being read by the EEG will be fed to a neural networking model coded using Google’s Tensor Flow which will create a model with a high enough accuracy to understand the intentions of the patient i.e. whether to stand up or not and the direction of movement. The Real-time data will be given to the existing model and the motors of the exoskeleton will move accordingly.