Brain Computer Interfaces: Challenges to Clinical Viability Addressed in the Laboratory

Paralysis following spinal cord injuries, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, stroke, and other disorders can intervene with signal transduction from the brain to the motor periphery, and eliminate the ability to perform volitional movements. Brain computer interfaces (BCI) directly measure brain activity associated with the user’s intent and translate the recorded brain activity into control signals for BCI applications, such as moving a computer cursor or a robot arm. While BCI technology has become an active and exciting field of research, much of the field’s development and achievements to date have taken place in the laboratory. The translation of BCI technology to the clinical setting is still not a reality. My thesis research has been dedicated to the objective of facilitating the translation of BCI systems from the primate lab to a clinical setting. That guiding objective has led me to work on several projects including: a technique that vastly improves the longevity of surgical implants in primate studies; a task that pushes the limits of sensorimotor performance – improving our knowledge of the function of primary motor cortex during realistic reaches and allowing us to quantify feedback effectiveness; characterizing the long-term tissue response to chronically implanted electrodes, and investigating how to optimally select parameters for neural information extraction. Each of these contributions will help bring BCI systems one step closer to clinical reality

Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space (CIRFFSS 1994), volume 1

The AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space (CIRFFSS '94) was originally proposed because of the strong belief that America's problems of global economic competitiveness and job creation and preservation can partly be solved by the use of intelligent robotics, which are also required for human space exploration missions. Individual sessions addressed nuclear industry, agile manufacturing, security/building monitoring, on-orbit applications, vision and sensing technologies, situated control and low-level control, robotic systems architecture, environmental restoration and waste management, robotic remanufacturing, and healthcare applications

Production planning and control: an investigation

The objective of this research is to identify how production planning and control theory may be successfully applied in a practical situation. The thesis is presented in two distinct parts: Part 1 representing a survey of literature concerned with theory and research findings on production planning and control; part 2 focuses on the development of selected material from the literature survey and the application of the product to an actual industrial situation where the appropriateness is tested. [Continues.

Proceedings of the 1993 Conference on Intelligent Computer-Aided Training and Virtual Environment Technology, Volume 1

These proceedings are organized in the same manner as the conference's contributed sessions, with the papers grouped by topic area. These areas are as follows: VE (virtual environment) training for Space Flight, Virtual Environment Hardware, Knowledge Aquisition for ICAT (Intelligent Computer-Aided Training) & VE, Multimedia in ICAT Systems, VE in Training & Education (1 & 2), Virtual Environment Software (1 & 2), Models in ICAT systems, ICAT Commercial Applications, ICAT Architectures & Authoring Systems, ICAT Education & Medical Applications, Assessing VE for Training, VE & Human Systems (1 & 2), ICAT Theory & Natural Language, ICAT Applications in the Military, VE Applications in Engineering, Knowledge Acquisition for ICAT, and ICAT Applications in Aerospace

Proceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics: CPSL 2022

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Proceedings of the 5th international conference on disability, virtual reality and associated technologies (ICDVRAT 2004)

The proceedings of the conferenc

Advanced Automation for Space Missions

The feasibility of using machine intelligence, including automation and robotics, in future space missions was studied