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Community Discussion => Flight Simulation Matters => Topic started by: EHM-1749 Hector on June 09, 2011, 11:25:33 am
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A team of engineering students at Northeastern University in Boston have developed a system that allows a pilot to operate a flight simulator with brain waves. The pilot exerts control of a simulated airplane by looking at specific points on an array of LEDs mounted on Plexiglas in front of a television screen. "Typically, a pilot has a joystick and a throttle and those allow him or her to do a myriad of things," said Mike Nedoroscik, the team leader. "We were able to identify the absolute essential controls and write them into the software. We've been able to achieve up to eight commands, which allowed us to fly the plane and do a couple of flight maneuvers." The project has drawn interest from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and inspired a team at Honeywell Inc. to pursue similar research, according to the university.
Nedoroscik and a team of five students worked on the project for two semesters, supervised by engineering professor Waleed Meleis and Deniz Erdogmus, a brain-computer interface expert. Using an open-source flight simulator called FlightGear, the group designed a system that can distinguish between eight commands at a rate of two seconds per command, achieving accurate results about 80 percent of the time. Erdogmus gave the group access to his equipment, which allows a user to control computers or robots with signals from different parts of the body.
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I always find mind control stuff frightening. Because there are a million things I think about doing, and then reflect upon them and ultimately not do them, but these things would just read my mind before my reflection and go ahead and do them anyway? hehe
"Maybe I should lower the gear... no that's stupid"
DETECTED LOWER GEAR -fweeeeeeeeeeeeeee-