Decoding Brain Signals in a Neuromorphic Framework for a Personalized Adaptive Control of Human Prosthetics
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Current technological solutions for Brain-machine Interfaces (BMI) achieve reasonable accuracy, but most systems are large in size, power consuming and not auto-adaptive. This work addresses the question whether current neuromorphic technologies could resolve these problems? The paper proposes a novel neuromorphic framework of a BMI system for prosthetics control via decoding Electro Cortico-Graphic (ECoG) brain signals. It includes a three-dimensional spike timing neural network (3D-SNN) for brain signals features extraction and an on-line trainable recurrent reservoir structure (Echo state network (ESN)) for Motor Control Decoding (MCD). A software system, written in Python using NEST Simulator SNN library is described. It is able to adapt continuously in real time in supervised or unsupervised mode. The proposed approach was tested on several experimental data sets acquired from a tetraplegic person. First simulation results are encouraging, showing also the need for a further improvement via multiple hyper-parameters tuning. Its future implementation on a neuromorphic hardware platform that is smaller in size and significantly less power consuming is discussed too.Description
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brain-machine interfaces, ECoG, motor control decoder, neuromorphic systems, personalized neuro-prosthetics, spiking neural networks, ECoG, brain-machine interfaces, motor control decoder, neuromorphic systems, personalized neuro-prosthetics, spiking neural networks, 46 Information and Computing Sciences, 40 Engineering, 4611 Machine Learning, Bioengineering, Neurosciences, Assistive Technology
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Biomimetics (Basel), ISSN: 2313-7673 (Print); 2313-7673 (Online), MDPI AG, 10(3), 183-. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics10030183
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