Portable brainwave controlled robotic dog for therapy

Abstract

With the revolution of technology, robots are an inevitable trend as robots can do what humans do more efficiently and at a lower cost. However, humans have retained labor force dominance because robots have suffered from immature software and hardware. To solve the problem of immatureness, we exploit a platform that can integrate the systems of multi-robots and strives to let all the users control their own robots through the platform. Our goal is to develop a ROS (Robot Operating System) package that can incorporate a small robot dog which allows the robot dog to respond to our industrial partner, R2C2, webapp commands and in addition to using brain waves to control the walking path. Our platform provides an intuitive and accessible interface for users to control the robot’s movements and behavior, increasing the robot’ s versatility and usage for applications such as therapy, entertainment, education, and research. Overall, our project represents an exciting step forward in the field of robotics, and we are excited to continue exploring new ways to improve the interaction between humans and machines.