The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) goal is to create a process for a human to control the movements of groups of drones with only a thought, said Daniel Pack, chairman of UTSA's electrical and computer engineering department.
Photo: Prasanna Kolar (right), controls a quad copter through an app on his smartphone. Kolar and other students at UTSA are studying how to control a drone with brain waves collected by an electroencephalogram system (cap) worn by Mauricio Merino, a masters student in electrical engineering.
The newly launched research comes at the intersection of two batches of funding. A team of researchers from the Unmanned Systems Laboratory in the electrical and computer engineering department recently scored a $300,000 contract from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate how soldiers could use their brain signals to operate drones for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
A separate $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense allowed the school to buy two high performance electroencephalogram systems, or EEG systems, which measure brain waves. This his research may help the Army lighten the load for soldiers in the field — who may already be carrying weapons, water, etc.
People may have different brain waves for the same command, so researchers will have to minimize the differences and maximize the similarities between brain waves and come up with ways to interpret those waves into machine commands.
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