BCI CYBATHLON 2020

MISSION

The CYBATHLON is a unique championship taking place every four years during which people with physical disabilities compete against each other using state-of the art technical assistance systems. The event promotes research, development and implementation of assistive technology and brings together researchers, people with disabilities and the general public.

Our team will compete in the Brain-Computer Interface Race. Pilots with severely impaired motor function (i.e. quadriplegia) control avatars in a computer game (BrainDrivers) with only their thoughts. Electroencephalography (EEG) is used to detect specific brain states that are translated into commands to control an avatar. The challenge is that thoughts must be decoded and transmitted correctly to make the avatar successful! A short video from the 2016 Cybathlon can be viewed external pagehere.

TEAM

Our team consists of two pilots and international researchers with broad expertise in movement imagination (Neural Control of Movement, ETH Zurich) and decoding brain signals (Computer Science and Engineering, NTU). What makes us unique is our diverse background, enthusiasm for science and its applications, and a high willingness to train our brains as well as algorithms!

Magnus Fromberg Hansen
Pilot

Professor Nicole Wenderoth
Head ETH Zurich
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Dr Rea Lehner
Team Manager
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Tushar Chouhan
Researcher NTU Singapore 
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Paulina Kratka
Assistant

Samuel Kunz
Pilot

Professor Cuntai Guan
Head NTU Singapore
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Dr Neethu Robinson
Researcher NTU Singapore 
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Ernest Mihelj
Researcher ETH Zurich
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ETH Cybathlon Team
Left to right: Prof. Nicole Wenderoth, Ernest Mihelj, Samuel Kunz, Paulina Kratka, Dr Rea Lehner
NTU Cybathlon Team
Left to right: Tushar Chouhan, Prof. Cuntai Guan, Dr Neethu Robinson

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