SSVEP Based BCI for an Object Control in 2D Space

The Brain-Computer Interfaces can successfully help the healthy and disabled users, in performing various activities in their day to day life. But still such high expectations are yet to be fulfilled by the existing BCI designs due to their restricted reliability and less understanding of the brain mechanisms used in it. Brain-computer interface (BCI) systems based on the steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) provide higher information transfer rate and require lesser training time than BCI systems using other paradigms. This work aimed to directly address the above problems by optimizing the BCI designs based on Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) brain responses. The main goal of this work was to optimize the frequency to be used by the users and further enhance the information transfer rates and the reliability of multi-command SSVEP-based BCI systems. The BCI system is designed to allow control of a virtual ball in 2D space with more than 97% of average accuracy with different users. *Corresponding author: Niharika Thakur, Department of Electronics & Communication, Manav Rachna College of Engineering, Faridabad, India, Tel: +91-129 4198100; E-mail: [email protected] Received September 17, 2014; Accepted November 11, 2014; Published November 17, 2014 Citation: Thakur N (2014) SSVEP Based BCI for an Object Control in 2D Space. J Civil Environ Eng 5: 164. doi:10.4172/2165-784X.1000164 Copyright: © 2014 Thakur N. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.