Ocular interaction with Robots: An aid to the disabled

Abstract

• This paper describes a technique 
to control remotely a robot arm 
from his eyes movement. This 
method will help disabled people 
to control a robot in order to aid 
them to perform tasks in their 
daily lives. The electrooculography 
technique (EOG) is used to detect 
the eyes movement. EOG registers 
the potential difference between 
the cornea and the retina using 
electrodes. 
The eyes movement is used to 
control a remote robot arm of 6 
degrees of freedom. First, the paper 
introduces several eye movement 
techniques to interact with devices, 
focusing on the EOG one. Then, 
the paper describes the system 
that allows interacting with a robot 
through the eyes movement. 
Finally, the paper shows some 
experimental results related to the 
robot controlled by the EOG-based 
interface