BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE

16BCE0237 AAYUSH KAPUR

16BCE0304 VIKRAM RAJPUT
16BCE2079 ABHINAV NAGPAL
Professor X

• Charles francis Xavier

• What he could do with people , we can get the power to do the
same with machines
• Welcome to the future where the stuff of comic books becomes a
reality
• Enter the tech of brain machine interface
• Utopian society of the future, a reality
BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE

• What it is ?
• Technology: allows a human to control a computer, peripheral, any
electronic device with thought
• Uses electrodes to detect electric signals in the brain
• These signals are sent to a computer which interprets them as
data and manipulates them for a meaningful specific application
BLOCK DIAGRAM
• Meshes our mind with the machine
• Has the capability of speeding up evolution reaching singularity
• Interface with the machine world directly with our brain
• Functioning will become much more intuitive
• Use of brain activity to command, control, actuate and
communicate with the world around us
POSSIBILITIES

• BCI technology can allow users to create music with their

thoughts.
• Will allow controllers to control the space probes through their
mind
• Projected lucid dreaming : where we become aware that we are
dreaming and are consciously able to direct our dreams
• Elon musk’s brain net
• Connect computers directly to our thoughts/brains
BMI ECONOMICS

• The global brain computer interface (BCI) market was valued at US$0.696
billion in 2017 and is projected to reach US$1.840 billion in 2023 exhibiting a
CAGR of 17.59% during the forecast period.
The market will experience an escalated growth in the coming years owing to
the increasing demand for the advanced technologies in the field of
neuroscience and information and communication technology. The sole purpose
of BCI is to help the people with special abilities to communicate with other
people as well as external environments.
• The growth of the market is fuelled by the high adoption rate among people
across the globe owing to increasing accidents and casualties along with
increasing fatal diseases.
• However, it has some restraints which will restrain the market growth such as
lack of skilled man-power, misuse of private and important data, and ethical
issues related to brain computer interface system.
WHY BCI/BMI TECH TO BE USED? / PURPOSE

• Provide a method for people with damaged sensory and motor

function
example – Accidents survivors who get paralysed
to use their brain to control artificial devices
• They will not be depended on others for support
• Restore lost motor ability
• To enhance episodic memory and attention in humans
MAIN PRINCIPLE

• Main principle behind this interface:

• Bioelectrical activity of nerves and muscles
• Brain composed of millions of neurons
• When a neuron fires there is voltage change across the cell
• This change generates signals on the surface of brain
• by monitoring these signals we can understand the working of
brain
COMPONENTS

• Implant device
• Signal Processing Section
• Multichannel Acquisition Systems
• Spike Detection
• Signal Analysis
• External Device
• Feedback System
Some implementations
ADVANTAGES AND APPLICATIONS

• Allow paralysed people to control prosthetic limbs with their

minds
• Transmit visual images to the mind of a blind person enabling
them to see
• Transmit auditory data to the mind of a deaf person allowing them
to hear
• Allow a mute person to have their thoughts displayed and spoken
by a computer
• Example : late scientist Stephen hawking and his wheelchair
ADVANTAGES AND APPLICATIONS

Provide
• Additional channel of control in computer games
• Develop intelligent relaxation devices
• Monitor attention in long distance drivers or airport pilots, send
out alert and warning for aircraft pilots
• Monitor stages of sleep/ bionics / cybernetics / memory upload /
download
• Create feed back loops to enhance the benefits of certain
therapeutic methods.
END USERS

• healthcare
• entertainment
• Gaming
• educational and research institutions
• Military uses
COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES

• Research still in infancy

• Current technology is crude
• Ethical issues may hinder the development and experiments
• Electrodes outside of the skull can detect very few electric signals
from the brain
• Electrodes placed inside the skull create scar tissue in the brain
FUTURE SCOPE

• We have a video to show

CONCLUSION

• As BCI technology further advances, brain tissue may one day give
way to implanted silicon chips thereby creating a completely
computerised simulation of the human brain that can be
augmented at will. Futurist predict that from their, superhuman
artificial intelligence will not be far behind.

• Now even a paralysed person can win an Olympic race!