Coffey Aodhán L, Leamy Darren J, Ward Tomás E
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014;2014:3622-5. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944407.
Commercially available devices for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)-controlled robotic stroke rehabilitation are prohibitively expensive for many researchers who are interested in the topic and physicians who would utilize such a device. Additionally, they are cumbersome and require a technician to operate, increasing the inaccessibility of such devices for home-based robotic stroke rehabilitation therapy. Presented here is the design, implementation and test of an inexpensive, portable and adaptable BCI-controlled hand therapy device. The system utilizes a soft, flexible, pneumatic glove which can be used to deflect the subject's wrist and fingers. Operation is provided by a custom-designed pneumatic circuit. Air flow is controlled by an embedded system, which receives serial port instruction from a PC running real-time BCI software. System tests demonstrate that glove control can be successfully driven by a real-time BCI. A system such as the one described here may be used to explore closed loop neurofeedback rehabilitation in stroke relatively inexpensively and potentially in home environments.
对于许多对脑机接口（BCI）控制的机器人中风康复感兴趣的研究人员以及可能使用此类设备的医生来说，市面上用于BCI控制的机器人中风康复的设备价格高得令人望而却步。此外，这些设备笨重，需要技术人员操作，这使得此类设备难以用于家庭机器人中风康复治疗。本文介绍了一种廉价、便携且适应性强的BCI控制手部治疗设备的设计、实现和测试。该系统使用一种柔软、灵活的气动手套，可用于使受试者的手腕和手指弯曲。操作由定制设计的气动回路提供。气流由嵌入式系统控制，该系统从运行实时BCI软件的个人计算机接收串口指令。系统测试表明，手套控制可以由实时BCI成功驱动。这样一个系统可以相对廉价地用于探索中风的闭环神经反馈康复，并且有可能在家庭环境中使用。
