Arizona State University Researcher Controls Drone 'Swarm' with His Mind
From: Product Design and Development - 07/26/2016

We've heard about people controlling drones with their minds before, but
Arizona State University is taking it to the next level with coordinated
swarms of mind-controlled machines.

Panagiotis Artemiadis, the assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering and director of the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab,
developed a system that allows a pilot to control a swarm of up to four
robots with his or her mind while watching the machines on a screen.

The pilot wears an electroencephalogram cap studded with 128 electrodes.
Instead of controlling the drones with physical movements, which would make
operating more than one machine difficult, they simply imagine what the
drones should do.

The skull cap has to be carefully calibrated to each pilot, and users are
instructed to use breathing exercises or mental imagery – imagining closing
their hand into a fist, for example – in order to concentrate and control the
drones most effectively.

Read the entire article and view a video (2:42) at:
https://www.pddnet.com/news/2016/07/asu-researcher-controls-drone-swarm-his-mind

Links:
Brain-controlled Drone Race Pushes Future Tech
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2016/04/mind-blown-brain-controlled-drone-race-pushes-future-tech

ASU researcher creates system to control robots with the brain
https://asunow.asu.edu/20160710-discoveries-asu-researcher-creates-system-control-robots-brain