Project description FET - Open Show the project objective Hide the project objective The main objective of the MAIA project is to develop a non-invasive direct brain-computer interface (BCI) that determines the subject's voluntary intent to do primitive motor actions on the order of milliseconds and conveys this intention to a robot that will implement the necessary low-level details for achieving complex tasks. To attain this goal we will take a radical departure from current assumptions and approaches in BCI. In particular, we will follow five innovative principles: - recognition of the subject's motor intent from the analysis of high resolution brain maps, which estimates intracranial potentials from scalp EEG, what would facilitate scaling up the number of mental commands and increasing recognition speed; - adaptive shared autonomy between two intelligent agents-the human user and the robot-so that the user only gives high-level mental commands that the robot performs autonomously; - use of haptic feedback to the user to accelerate training and facilitate accurate control; - recognition of brain events associated to high-level cognitive states, such as error recognition and alarm, to increase the reliability of the brain-actuated robots; - on-line adaptation of the interface to the user to keep the BCI constantly tuned to its owner. These principles will be demonstrated in three applications, which will be used to measure the S&T objectives of the MAIA project. The three demonstrations are: - driving a wheelchair in an indoor environment; - controlling a robot arm for reaching and manipulation tasks; - handling emergency situations after recognizing the subject's alarm state (e.g. braking the vehicle or retracting the robot arm). Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.4.1 - FET - Open Call for proposal FP6-2002-IST-C See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator FONDATION DE L'INSTITUT DALLE MOLLE D'INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE PERCEPTIVE EU contribution € 555 000,00 Address Rue du Simplon 4 1920 Martigny Switzerland See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution € 573 000,00 Address OUDE MARKT 13 3000 LEUVEN See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data LES HOPITAUX UNIVERSITAIRES DE GENEVE Switzerland EU contribution € 483 000,00 Address rue Micheli-du-crest 24 1211 Geneva See on map Total cost No data HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Finland EU contribution € 249 000,00 Address OTAKAARI 1 02015 HUT ESPOO See on map Total cost No data FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA Italy EU contribution € 210 000,00 Address Via Ardeatina, 306 00179 Roma See on map Activity type Research Organisations Total cost No data
