Portuguese company tests innovative technology control … – TeK.sapo

And if instead of controlling a drone with a control and a computer control wore only the brain? The development of technology is the basis of the work of a European consortium, led by TEKEVER and which also involves the Champalimaud Foundation and has now taken another step (or rather a flight) in implementing the project.
 

“Danger lurks but went well,” he told TeK Ricardo Mendes, director of TEKEVER, pleased with the experience that yesterday aired a drone controlled by brain impulses across a group of national journalists and International and several video cameras.
 

This is the third phase of Brainflight, the project supported by the European Union and has passed through several stages, including the use of brain control system for controlling a simulator, a documented experience in the video below.
 

The system calls will use a cap with sensors that allows “read” the commands of the brain impulses user to transfer them to the drone. Even with bad flying conditions, and winds of 50 miles per hour, the experience was successful.
 

Ricardo Mendes admits that as much as TEKEVER know, this is the first experience of the world, in a real environment, which uses the control technology by brain impulses to control an unmanned spacecraft.
 
 

The objects by mind control capability is being developed in several areas, including robotics, but TEKEVER decided to ally itself with the Champalimaud Foundation and the University of Munich and the Dutch EAGLESCIENCE to apply development scientific to the area of ​​drones, where TEKEVER has specialized.
 
 
 

The project Brainflight is now close to the terminal phase, but the administrator TEKEVER admits that there may be continued for technology, even if not through new public funding for research. “This line of research will clearly continue. [...] We want to move forward and make the attempt to produtizar components,” explains.
 
 

TEKEVER rem been investing in R & D and warrant that you have the ability to maintain this research, because it is one of the areas of interest and can revolutionize the way we interact within a cockpit, as well as allow a drone control by people who otherwise they could not.
 
 
 

“This is a fascinating area and we are fortunate to have in Portugal two entities with expertise in such complex areas such as TEKEVER and the Champalimaud Foundation and touching areas of neuroscience,” he explains.
 
 

Here are some pictures of the experiment conducted yesterday.
 
 

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