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T1 Steering a tractor by means of an EMG-based human-machine interface
A1 Gómez Gil, Jaime
A1 San José González, Israel
A1 Nicolás Alonso, Luis Fernando
A1 Alonso García, Sergio
K1 Agricultural vehicles
K1 Human-machine interface (HMI)
K1 Human-computer interface (HCI)
K1 Electroencephalography (EEG)
K1 Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
K1 Control
K1 Global Positioning System (GPS)
K1 33 Ciencias Tecnológicas
AB An electromiographic (EMG)-based human-machine interface (HMI) is a communication pathway between a human and a machine that operates by means of the acquisition and processing of EMG signals. This article explores the use of EMG-based HMIs in the steering of farm tractors. An EPOC, a low-cost human-computer interface (HCI) from the Emotiv Company, was employed. This device, by means of 14 saline sensors, measures and processes EMG and electroencephalographic (EEG) signals from the scalp of the driver. In our tests, the HMI took into account only the detection of four trained muscular events on the driver’s scalp: eyes looking to the right and jaw opened, eyes looking to the right and jaw closed, eyes looking to the left and jaw opened, and eyes looking to the left and jaw closed. The EMG-based HMI guidance was compared with manual guidance and with autonomous GPS guidance. A driver tested these three guidance systems along three different trajectories: a straight line, a step, and a circumference. The accuracy of the EMG-based HMI guidance was lower than the accuracy obtained by manual guidance, which was lower in turn than the accuracy obtained by the autonomous GPS guidance; the computed standard deviations of error to the desired trajectory in the straight line were 16 cm, 9 cm, and 4 cm, respectively. Since the standard deviation between the manual guidance and the EMG-based HMI guidance differed only 7 cm, and this difference is not relevant in agricultural steering, it can be concluded that it is possible to steer a tractor by an EMG-based HMI with almost the same accuracy as with manual steering.
PB MDPI
SN 1424-8220
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57769
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57769
LA eng
NO Sensors, 2011, vol. 11, n. 7, p. 7110-7126
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-may-2024