Mind Meld : Astute Brain Interface

DESCRIPRION:

  We are final year engineering students of MIT College of Engineering,Pune trying to combine two most important aspects of human civilization-The brain and computers.Our Project aims to build an brain computer interface that will allow the user to switch vehicular turn signals, authenticate locks and other controls with just a thought. Which will eliminate the need of manual work thus improving the road safety and saving precious lives.

TECHNICAL DETAILS:

  In this project we have taken the recordings of Brain's electrical activity of nearly 50 participants of varying age groups. 5 channel EEG headset manufactured by Emotiv called 'Insight' shown in above figure was used for this purpose. On analyzing the data, we concluded that each individual regardless of the age have an unique pattern for various actions. This makes classifying the thoughts into few countable classes possible.

  The turn signal system demands classification into 2 classes. To achieve this we trained models using various ML techniques.RNN-LSTM(Reccurent Neural Networks-Long Short Term Memory) was finalized.We were successful in classifying real time EEG data with an accuracy on 81.47%.

The system will work as follows:

  The rider/user has the EEG headset on while riding. The headset will be connected to smartphone using bluetooth and the smartphone collects and processes the data. The respective data will be transferred to microprocessor. Microprocessor will accordingly control the actions.

  There will be three individual systems. Turn Signal. Authentication of lock, Mood detection of user.

  From the recordings we have concluded that each user has a unique password and that user's brain wave is also unique. By taking the advantage we are designing system which includes Two Stage Secure Authentication.

  All the data is very sensitive and the processing of it should be precise, so the systems should be very accurate and precise which requires well fabricated PCBs. We have designed the PCBs as compact as possible and the attached PCB is first prototype. The designing of the whole system is in progress.

WORDS TO PCBWAY:

  As the project demands accuracy and precision, we are interested in PCBs fabricated from "PCBWay". PCBWay is known for world class accuracy in fabrication. It would be grateful if PCBWay sponsors the project PCBs and take part to make this project successful, to save the precious lives and to make world smarter.