Abstract
Disabilities due to neurodegenerative disease are rapidly increasing in number. The need for rehabilitative devices to achieve a normal and comfortable life in the absence of biochannels has also increased. The activities of biochannels can be easily replaced by implementing rehabilitative devices. The electrooculography (EOG)-based human-computer interface (HCI) is one of the most important techniques for enabling disabled persons to enjoy a normal life. The technique of measuring the cornea-retina potential difference is called EOG. The technology for converting thoughts to different control patterns to activate external devices is called the HCI. In this paper, we carried out a study on ten subjects aged 20-30 years using a five-electrode signal acquisition system (AD T26). The subject performances were experimentally verified by implementing periodogram features with a feedforward neural network trained on a nature-inspired algorithm. The analysis was conducted offline and online to evaluate the achievement of the developed HCI. The study showed an average classification accuracy of 93.93% for four tasks, with 95% accuracy for the offline mode and 90.12% for the online mode. The participating subjects drove the mobile robot in all directions frequently and quickly with a recognition accuracy of 98.12%. The study confirmed that the four tasks (related to driving the external device) performed by the subjects were convenient to perform in real time.