Eyeglasses based electrooculography human-wheelchair interface

Chung Hsien Kuo*, Yi Chang Chan, Hung Chyun Chou, Jia Wun Siao

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Abstract

This paper describes an electrooculography (EOG) based human-wheelchair interface for wheelchair users. A pair of electrodes which measures the eye-gaze direction of users is desired as wheelchair manipulation commands. In addition to EOG based wheelchair manipulations, this paper also introduces ultrasonic arrays for detecting distances to actively avoid collisions. In order to simplify setup procedures of using this system, two electrodes are mounted on two side arms of eyeglasses respectively that are possible to have tight contacts with skins around eyes. Therefore, wheelchair movements are capable of following eye-gaze directions. On the other hand, an analog biopotential signal amplifier and a laptop computer are used to develop the proposed EOG based human-wheelchair interface controller. Finally, experimental results demonstrate the operations of EOG based human-wheelchair interface.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2009
Pages4746-4751
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2009 - San Antonio, TX, United States
Duration: 11 10 200914 10 2009

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio, TX
Period11/10/0914/10/09

Keywords

  • Electrooculography
  • Eye-gaze tracking
  • Human-wheelchair interface
  • Reactive navigations

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