A P300 brain-computer interface design for virtual remote control system

A convenient way for controlling household appliances using a remote controller is not suitable for movement-disabled patients. To provide an alternative for such people, some applications on controlling household devices have been developed recently. However, there are some shortcomings in those control systems. Because the brain activities are reserved in movement-disabled patients, we proposed a virtual remote control system using a P300 Brain-computer interface (BCI), which allows users to communicate with outside by focused attention. Both offline and online experiments were implemented to verify the feasibility of virtual BCI-based remote control system. The validation results demonstrated that the designed system achieved a good performance, which may meet practical requirements.