Neuro Power
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2017
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Moqadi, Ruba
Yadak, Hadeel
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Our brains are the main controllers of our bodies, but what about making them control everything around us? Our project starts from this point, where we aim to use the electrical signals from the brain to hand’s muscles to control anything around us even another person’s arm.
Our project primarily based on how this technology can be used to aid human disability and also extend the physical limits of the human body. We can use the brain’s signals through the arm to control a another person’s arm, which can be very useful in the medical field by which a doctor can control the arm of the patient in a situation like, if the patient is a child and he can’t understand what the doctor want him to do, so through this project, the doctor can move his arm which will move the patient arm directly. So in the future could a person who has become paralyzed in a certain body part due to brain or spinal injury be able to move if it is stimulated by someone else's brain.
Methodology: It is known that the brain controls our movements by sending electrical charges through the spinal cord to the lower motor neuron. From there, the electrical charge is sent out to specific muscles that need to be stimulated then it used in EMG( Electromyography) which is an electro diagnostic medicine technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, then these signals will be transmitted through electrodes to a specific circuit which consist of amplifiers, sensors filters and an Arduino which converts the EMG signal from an analog (continuously varying) into a digital one (broken into discrete "numbers"), making analysis and instructions on what to do with the signal much easier, then this signal will control a TENS unit , which is a device that harmlessly delivers electricity to your arm's nerves, controlling it in a way where the electrodes were placed.
The success of this project can make a revolution in the medical field in the future from the idea a brain of one individual can control the arm of another person, it would only make one believe that in the future we will be able to control our own injured bodies or injured brains.