EOG Based Interface to Command a Powered Orthosis for Lower Limbs

Author

Cavalcanti Roza, Valber Cesar ; De Araujo, Marcio Valerio ; Alsina, Pablo Javier ; Pantaleon Matamoros, Efrain

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Engeneering & Autom., Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

18-23 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

48

Abstract

Users of powered or thoses for lower limbs, use Human Machine Interface (HMI) to trigger these devices. This work, presents a HMI based on Electrooculography (EOG) to command a powered orthosis for lower limbs, through the eye movements. This interface, is responsible by generation of high-level commands like: walking, stop, sit down, stand up, up and down stairs. By using this HMI, the user´s hand will always be free to perform other tasks. Preliminary results, showed that, it was possible to command a powered hip-knee-ankle-foot orthosis through eyes movements.

Keywords

electro-oculography; man-machine systems; orthotics; EOG based interface; HMI; electrooculography; eye movements; high-level commands; hip-knee-ankle-foot orthosis; human machine interface; lower limbs; powered orthosis; Computers; Educational institutions; Electric potential; Electrodes; Electrooculography; Joints; Microcontrollers; HMI; digital signal processing; electrooculography; orthosis; signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics: SBR-LARS Robotics Symposium and Robocontrol (SBR LARS Robocontrol), 2014 Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Sao Carlos

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6710-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBR.LARS.Robocontrol.2014.52

Filename

7024254