A novel BCI-controlled pneumatic glove system for home-based neurorehabilitation

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:3622-5. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944407.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain-Computer Interfaces*
  • Clothing*
  • Equipment Design
  • Feedback, Sensory
  • Hand / innervation
  • Hand / physiology*
  • Home Care Services*
  • Humans
  • Rehabilitation / economics
  • Rehabilitation / instrumentation*
  • Robotics
  • Software
  • Stroke Rehabilitation*
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