Brain-Robot Interfaces Using Spatial Tactile BCI Paradigms - Symbiotic Brain-Robot Applications

Two novel approaches to a direct brain-robot interface using tactile brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies are presented in the paper. We propose to utilize two previously developed by our team stim- ulus driven BCI paradigms, which are based on tactile pin pressure and full body vibrotactile modalities. The user intentions are decoded from the brainwaves in real time and translated to a symbiotic humanoid robot NAO navigation. A communication protocol between the BCI output and the robot is realized in a symbiotic brain-robot communication scenario using an user datagram protocol (UDP). Results obtained from healthy users reproducing simple brain-robot control tasks support the research hypothesis of the possibility to interact with robotic devices using sym- biotic BCI technologies.

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