A Brainy Innovation Takes Flight
From: Northeastern University News - 05/31/2011
By: Matt Collette 

Northeastern University engineering students have developed a computer
interface that allows a pilot to fly a simulated airplane with his or her
brain by looking at specific points on an array of light-emitting diodes
mounted on plexiglass in front of a TV screen. "Typically, a pilot has a
joystick and a throttle and those allow him or her to do a myriad of things,"
says Northeastern's Mike Nedoroscik. "We've been able to achieve up to eight
commands, which allowed us to fly the plane and do a couple of flight
maneuvers." The students used FlightGear, an open-source flight simulator, to
design the computer system, and were able to achieve accurate results about
80 percent of the time. Northeastern professors Waleed Meleis and Deniz
Erdogmus, a brain-computer interface expert, worked with the students on the
project. Erdogmus provided them with access to his equipment, which enables
users to control computers or robots with signals from different parts of
their body. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2011/05/braincontrol.html
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/StudentsDevelopBrainWaveControlledFlightSimulator_204775-1.html

Links:
Deniz Erdogmus
http://indigo.ece.neu.edu/~erdogmus/
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/ece/faculty_and_staff/faculty1/deniz_erdogmus/

FlightGear
http://www.flightgear.org/