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J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2008, 1, 170-172 Brain initiated interaction Rajesh Singla Dr Balraj Gupta 1 1Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar-144011, India. Correspondence should be addressed to Rajesh Singla (rksingla1975@). Received March 4, 2008; revised September 5, 2008; accepted September 5, 2008 ABSTRACT ling the motion of the bed of severely paralyzed patients for drug and food delivery etc with the help of a stepper motor installed for controlling the motion of the bed in both directions i.e. up and down. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are developed to help locked-in patients, who lose control of their bodies and are unable to perform simple tasks such as speech, locomotion, and can’t even effectively interact, with their environment. BCI shows promise in allowing these individuals to interact with a computer using EEG. A Brain Computer Interface is a communication system in which messages or commands that an indi- vidual sends to the external world do not pass through the brain’s normal output pathways of peripheral nerves and muscles. A system is created to allow individuals with motor disabili- ties to control the motion of the bed on which they are bedridden via BCI for drug delivery and other activities, with the help of eye motion and changes in the absolute power in alpha rhythms of an EEG signal of the patient. 2. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE Figure 1 shows the complete experimental setup of a BCI system, designed to control environment (in this case motion of the bed). The system is developed using virtual instrumentation technology and consists of basic two modules: hardware and software. The hardware set up of the system consists of ? ? EEG equipment (Head box and adaptor box) Desktop PC interfaced to EEG Hardware via USB port. ? USB based digital output signal interfacing boar