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Decodificación y estimulación de la actividad cerebral sensorial y motora para potenciar el control de un exoesqueleto de miembro inferior

Title:
Decodificación y estimulación de la actividad cerebral sensorial y motora para potenciar el control de un exoesqueleto de miembro inferior
Authors:
Rodríguez Ugarte, María de la Soledad
Tutor:
Azorín Poveda, José María
Department:
Departamentos de la UMH::Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática
Issue Date:
2019-01-18
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/11000/5105
Abstract:
La presente tesis se centró en el estudio de interfaces cerebro-máquina (BMI: Brain-Machine Interfaces) basadas en se ñales electroencefalográficas (EEG) y en la estimulación transcraneal por corriente continua (tDCS: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) con el fin de controlar un exoesqueleto ...  Ver más
This thesis was focused on the study of brain machine interfaces (BMI) based on electroencephalographic signals (EEG) and transcraneal direct current stimulation (tDCS) with the aim of controlling a lower limb exoskeleton in real time. One of the main goals was to develop a BMI capable of detecting in real time the movement intent or the distinction between two cognitive motor tasks. The second goal was to study a tDCS configuration capable of improving the cognitive task performance. And the third goal was to control a lower limb exoeskeleton using the BMI and the tDCS configuration designed. Initially several algorithms and electrode configurations were evaluated so that the BMI designed was capable of detecting pedaling intent by means of the user’s EEG signals. Afterwards, the paradigm and design of the BMI were changed in order to improve the cognitive detections of the BMI. With this in mind, BMIs able to distinguish between the imagination of two cognitive motor tasks (relaxation and either pedaling or gait) were designed. For the tDCS studies, two different montages were tested to improve the detection of cognitive motor imagery tasks. The first montage was evaluated with the paradigm of identifying relaxation and pedaling motor imagery. This montage focused on overexciting the motor cortex area where the legs are represented in the brain. The second montage analyzed the paradigm of detecting relaxation and gait motor imagery. This montage concentrated on exciting both the cerebellum and the motor cortex area where the legs are represented in the brain. Finally, a pilot test with healthy subjects controlled a lower limb exoskeleton in real time with the BMI designed via the detection of two cognitive motor imagery tasks. In this experiment, participants were stimulated using the second tDCS montage. With this study, it was corroborated that the BMI could distinguish between two motor imagery tasks and that the tDCS montage improved the detection performance.
Keywords/Subjects:
Tratamiento de señales
Neurociencias
Tecnologías de las telecomunicaciones
Knowledge area:
CDU: Ciencias aplicadas: Ingeniería. Tecnología
CDU: Ciencias aplicadas: Tecnología cibernética y automática
Type of document:
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Access rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Appears in Collections:
Tesis doctorales - Ciencias e Ingenierías



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