UTC Students' Research Project Controls Drones Using Brainwaves
From: UTC News - 11/16/2017
By: Shawn Ryan

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (UTC) are developing
a system in which a person can control multiple drones by thought alone. The
researchers want to detect patterns in brainwaves that will enable them to
give abstract commands to multiple drones. For example, instead of giving a
basic command such as "take off" or "land," a user could send out an abstract
command such as "search and rescue," says UTC's Zach Ruble. He notes after
receiving the command, the swarm of drones will be able to autonomously
determine what needs to be done in order to execute the mission. Ruble says
in the current system, the brainwaves are fed into a laptop, which sends a
Wi-Fi signal to a second computer that sends a wireless signal to the drone.
The researchers also are creating a wide "vocabulary" for drone control,
which they believe will increase the drone's capabilities.

Read the entire article and view a video (2:15) at:
https://blog.utc.edu/news/2017/11/utc-students-research-project-controls-drones-using-brainwaves

Links:
Research project controls drones using brainwaves
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2017/nov/26/research-project-controls-drones-using-brainw/457830

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