Development of an FPGA-based real-time P300 speller

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Contributors

  • Kanav Khurana - , National University of Singapore (Author)
  • Pooja Gupta - , National University of Singapore (Author)
  • Rajesh C. Panicker - , National University of Singapore (Author)
  • Akash Kumar - , National University of Singapore (Author)

Abstract

A Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a system that allows direct communication between a computer and the human brain. Though the main application for BCIs is in rehabilitation of disabled patients, they are increasingly being used in other application scenarios as well. Most of the current BCI systems are based on personal computers. However, there is an increased interest in implementing BCIs for portable platforms as well, such as mobile phones and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) owing to low cost, power and portability. This paper proposes a low-cost FPGA based BCI speller application. The proposed system combines a stimulation panel, data acquisition and FPGA based real-time signal processing. The BCI system demonstrated here is a speller, which allows the user to use his/her brain signals to communicate directly with the application and spell out words by merely looking at the screen. The system achieves an accuracy of 65.37% when utilizing 2 rounds of data per character and an accuracy of 100% when utilizing 20 rounds of data per character.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
PublisherIEEE Xplore
Pages551-554
Number of pages4
ISBN (electronic)978-1-4673-2256-0
ISBN (print)978-1-4673-2257-7
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

SeriesInternational Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
ISSN1946-147X

Conference

Title2012 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
Abbreviated titleFPL 2012
Conference number22
Duration29 - 31 August 2012
Website
LocationUniversity of Oslo
CityOslo
CountryNorway

Keywords

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Keywords

  • brain computer interface (BCI), Field-programmable gate array (FPGA), P300, Real-time system