Brain-Computer Interfacing for Assistive Robotics: Electroencephalograms, Recurrent Quantum Neural Networks, and User-Centric Graphical Interfaces

Brain-Computer Interfacing for Assistive Robotics: Electroencephalograms, Recurrent Quantum Neural Networks, and User-Centric Graphical Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-236

  Gandhi, Vaibhav ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/C2013-0-23408-5     Document Type: Book

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