![]() ![]() These are the some of the first components that Philipsberg worked with: a toy car, its remote, and an Arduino board. Ideally, he would want the quadcopter to have more sensors, because it would be capable of balancing and controling movement better if it were “aware” of itself in XYZ space. He is considering making changes using open VCI (a file extension) to refine its performance. Currently, Philipsberg is working on improvements. Before working with the quadcopter, he used a remote control toy car to test how it worked. It took Philipsberg several different versions to get to this point in his project. This is the Mindwave headset used to measure the brainwave signals. Values within a certain threshold were set to reduce drift. For this to be possible, these calm and excited states had to be defined. When calm, the quadcopter rises off the floor, and is capable of hovering if he maintains that composure. To control the movements of the quadcopter, Philipsberg practices control of his current emotional states that affect the brainwaves. Upon receiving these values, the computer checks the level of relaxation to set a different value for the throttle, and sends it to the Arduino board, where the wireless module communicates it with the quadcopter. Brainwave signals and activity are measured as numerical values. When the sensor detects the brainwaves, it sends the information to the laptop. The laptop is directly connected by wire to an Arduino board, and the Xbox 360 controller. This is wirelessly connected to the laptop. ![]() ![]() This drone is the Syma Quadcopter, shown turned off in this photo.Ī Mindwave headset is a portable EEG (electroencephalogram) sensor that monitors brainwave signals. Over the last few months (starting in September), he has been able to assemble a brain-controlled drone using a Mindwave headset, an Arduino board, a wireless module, Xbox 360 controller, and a quadcopter drone – all connected to a laptop. Paul Philipsberg, a biomedical engineering major on the pre-med track graduating this December 2015, is student working on one of the unique projects only found at the Stony Brook University Innovation Lab. ![]()
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