Performance analysis of EEG signal processing based device control applications

Abstract

Nowadays, many types of devices are controlled by electroselenography (EEG) signals. In the literature and in daily life, related studies with EEG controlled devices are increasing day by day. EEG based control applications are applied on many devices such as robot arm, robot, vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). EEG based control procedures usually involve taking, pre-processing, classifying EEG signals, and applying the resulting command to the controlled device. In this study, a performance analysis was carried out by examining the control application studies using EEG signals in the literature. In this analysis study, firstly all studies related to the subject in the literature are examined and the devices, methods, signal processing techniques and classification algorithms used in these studies are handled separately. Appropriate electrode selection for the type of device used in device control applications using EEG signals and type of interaction for command extraction from EEG signal appears to be an important step. In this respect, performance correlations between the types of EEG devices used in the literature studies and the electrode choices used in these studies were compared. Since there are a variety of preprocessing steps for EEG signals, this study provides comparisons based on EEG signal preprocessing techniques. Artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM) and K nearest neighbours (Knn) are used to classify the works in the literature. In this study, comparative studies based on classification methods used in literature studies are also included. As a result, in this study, the studies in the literature for the device control using the EEG signal are examined, compared, interpreted and evaluated, and the points to be considered in the designs to be performed in this area are given.