Scientists from the AutoNOMOS innovation laboratories of the Freie University, in Berlin (Germany), have developed a technology called BrainDriver that allows you to drive a vehicle without moving your hands or feet, using only your thought . To achieve this, Raúl Rojas and his Artificial Intelligence Group have developed a system that measures brain waves – with sensors to record electroencephalograms (EEG) – and distinguishes the electrical patterns of a user’s brain for basic control commands such as “clockwise rotation. left “,” right turn “,” accelerate “and” brake “. In addition, the system has a sophisticated group of sensors and cameras that create a three-dimensional map of the environment and allow to know the situation of the car. The new technology for driving with thought has just been put to the test with resounding success on the runways of the old Tempelhof airport.
Last year, Rojas and his team created software called eyeDriver that allowed you to drive a vehicle with the movement of your eyes . To handle it, the driver wore a modified bicycle case equipped with two cameras and an infrared LED, as well as a computer. One of the cameras pointed towards the road, while the other filmed a driver’s eye to turn the wheels to the right or left based on eye movement. The brake and accelerator were operated with the feet.
