I succeeded in experimenting maneuvering an airplane only with brain waves, and in the future I might be able to fly a drone just by thinking like a funnel

Munich Institute of TechnologyIn an experiment conducted by Professor Tim Fricke of the Institute, a subject who got on the flight simulator did not grasp the control stick "The power of thinkingI succeeded in maneuvering an airplane only.

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The state of the experiment which maneuvers an airplane with hands-free can be seen with the following movie.

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The flight simulator used in the experiment is kore. It seems that the subjects participate in the experiment without knowing anything about the method of maneuvering, without taking any measures such as letting the maneuvering practice in advance.


At first we started the test to turn the plane.


A subject who got on the simulator looked like this, and an electrode for detecting the brain wave was attached to the head.


Although it does not grasp the control stick, it moves with left and right. This means that the electrode for electroencephalography attached to the head senses the brain waves and turns the airplane left and right.



If you are watching the images taken from outside the simulator, you can see that the airplane is about to turn swiftly by tilting the aircraft.


During the experiment, the electrodes for brain wave recording are attached to the head to record electric signals of the brain, but "Brain signal feedback" at the upper left of the following screen visually displays the recorded signals of the brain What you did. When turning the airplane left and right, this signal also moves greatly left and right.




And lastly it is an experiment to land on the runway by maneuvering an airplane using EEG.


I saw a runway in front of the screen.


Subjects are approaching the runway while brainwaves are fine-tuning the nose of the airplane left and right.


Although it has some degree of accuracy, it seems that it will not go until "a perfect landing on the runway 's coconut', and it is a nose that will fluctuate even when the ground approaches.



And safely landed on the runway.


In the experiment using this simulator, it is said that using the algorithm created by the research team of the Munich Technical University, "brainwave" is translated "to the direction to steer an airplane to move the plane to the left or right. In the experiment, seven subjects seemed to have flew the airplane just thinking in the head, but it seems every subject was skillfully flying the simulator's plane.

This experiment of "steering an airplane with an EEG"Brainflight"Project as a part of a project to explore the structure of the brain called a project, a promising project that has invested 600 thousand euros (about 83 million yen) from the European Union. It is led by PortugueseTekeverIt is a company that develops drone and military technology. Treat news from all over the worldWorldcrunchAlthough it has not yet been conceived how to use this electroencephalogram maneuvering technique for airplanes, it is reported that flight experiments using drone will be conducted.

If we can think about drones by merely thinking at the head, we can also train only "nuclear missiles" and "nuclear missiles" from missiles massively released like Colonel Shaa It may become like.

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