wheelchair is created in cooperation with Toyota RIKEN

TECHNOLOGY developed to facilitate human. Either for business or simply entertainment. A positive development can also be the less fortunate. Yes, Toyota makes the principle of a wheelchair controlled mind.

Special wheelchair is created in cooperation with Toyota RIKEN, a research company in Japan. Special tool that can be controlled easily by people with disabilities. That is, read the users mind. The technology used is a signal EEG (electroencephalography).

In a press release issued on Monday (29 / 6) mentioned that the technology is the fastest in its class. In previous findings, take a few seconds to read and interpret the brain waves.

However, with new technology, only take about 125 milliseconds or seconds eighth. Thus, the user will not feel the slightest pause when the brain began to give instructions to the wheelchair to move.

The system combines two technologies developed by RIKEN, the blind signal Separation (BSS) and the space-time-frequency filtering technology. BSS is a technology that can separate between noise and signal components in the brain.

BSS is used to control the wheelchair. Thus, the signal is arrested for doing the movement. Technology is used by using EEG signals.

Meanwhile, the space-time-frequency filtering is a technology that mengekstraksi pattern space, time, and frequency of EEG signal data. The goal, to distinguish the main features and components that can be significant as the wheelchair info. Nah, BSS and EEG analysis that allows the brain waves is done in very short time.

Wheelchair equipped with an EEG detector electrode in the form of a skull cap, cheek Puff detector, and a display to help control. Users who sat in the wheelchair must wear a hat that can read brain waves. Brain waves are forwarded as EEG signals.