Tongue-Rudder: A Glossokinetic-Potential-Based Tongue-Machine Interface

作者：Nam Yunjun; Zhao Qibin; Cichocki Andrzej; Choi Seungjin^*

来源：IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2012, 59(1): 290-299.

DOI：10.1109/TBME.2011.2174058

• Electric wheelchair control
• glossokinetic potentials (GKPs)
• tongue-machine interface

Glossokinetic potentials (GKPs) are electric potential responses generated by tongue movement. In this study, we use these GKPs to automatically detect and estimate tongue positions, and develop a tongue-machine interface. We show that a specific configuration of electrode placement yields discriminative GKPs that vary depending on the direction of the tongue. We develop a linear model to determine the direction of tongue from GKPs, where we seek linear features that are robust to a baseline drift problem by maximizing the ratio of intertask covariance to intersession covariance. We apply our method to the task of wheelchair control, developing a tongue-machine interface for wheelchair control, referred to as tongue-rudder. A teeth clenching detection system, using electromyography, was also implemented in the system in order to assign teeth clenching as the stop command. Experiments on off-line cursor control and online wheelchair control confirm the unique advantages of our method, such as: 1) noninvasiveness, 2) fine controllability, and 3) ability to integrate with other EEG-based interface systems.

• 出版日期2012-1
• 单位RIKEN