Remote teleoperation of an unmanned aircraft with a brain-machine interface: Theory and preliminary results

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5322-5327

  Akce, Abdullah ^a   Johnson, Miles ^b   Bretl, Timothy ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY SYMMETRIC CHANNEL; BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE; CHANNEL CODE; COMBINATION OF ARITHMETIC; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; ERROR PROBABILITIES; HARDWARE EXPERIMENT; HUMAN PILOTS; LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION; MOTOR IMAGERY; NOISELESS FEEDBACK; PLANAR CURVES; SYMBOLIC LANGUAGES; TELE-OPERATIONS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS;

AIRCRAFT; COMMUNICATION; DATA COMPRESSION; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955780910     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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