Towards Brain-Computer Interfaces for Drone Swarm Control

Ji Hoon Jeong; Dae Hyeok Lee; Hyung Ju Ahn; Seong Whan Lee

doi:10.1109/BCI48061.2020.9061646

Towards Brain-Computer Interfaces for Drone Swarm Control

Ji Hoon Jeong, Dae Hyeok Lee, Hyung Ju Ahn, Seong Whan Lee

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Abstract

Noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) decodes brain signals to understand user intention. Recent advances have been developed for the BCI-based drone control system as the demand for drone control increases. Especially, drone swarm control based on brain signals could provide various industries such as military service or industry disaster. This paper presents a prototype of a brain-swarm interface system for a variety of scenarios using a visual imagery paradigm. We designed the experimental environment that could acquire brain signals under a drone swarm control simulator environment. Through the system, we collected the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals with respect to four different scenarios. Seven subjects participated in our experiment and evaluated classification performances using the basic machine learning algorithm. The grand average classification accuracy is higher than the chance level accuracy. Hence, we could confirm the feasibility of the drone swarm control system based on EEG signals for performing high-level tasks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728147079
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BCI48061.2020.9061646
Publication status	Published - 2020 Feb
Event	8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020 - Gangwon, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2020 Feb 26 → 2020 Feb 28

Publication series

Name	8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020

Conference

Conference	8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Gangwon
Period	20/2/26 → 20/2/28

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Research was funded by Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (No. 2017-0-00451, Development of BCI based Brain and Cognitive Computing Technology for Recognizing User’s Intentions using Deep Learning).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

Keywords

brain-computer interface
drone swarm control
electroencephalogram
visual imagery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction

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Jeong, J. H., Lee, D. H., Ahn, H. J., & Lee, S. W. (2020). Towards Brain-Computer Interfaces for Drone Swarm Control. In 8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020 Article 9061646 (8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BCI48061.2020.9061646

Towards Brain-Computer Interfaces for Drone Swarm Control. / Jeong, Ji Hoon; Lee, Dae Hyeok; Ahn, Hyung Ju et al.
8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. 9061646 (8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Jeong, JH, Lee, DH, Ahn, HJ & Lee, SW 2020, Towards Brain-Computer Interfaces for Drone Swarm Control. in 8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020., 9061646, 8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, BCI 2020, Gangwon, Korea, Republic of, 20/2/26. https://doi.org/10.1109/BCI48061.2020.9061646

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