Wearable Brain-Computer Interface for Augmented Reality-based. Inspection in Industry 4.0

Pasquale Arpaia
Team Manager at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

In the last two decades, Augmented Reality (AR) has gained great interest in the technical-scientific community and much effort has been done to overcome its limitations in daily use. Main industrial operations where AR is applied are training, inspections, diagnostics, assembly-disassembly, and repair. These operations usually require the user hands to be free from the AR device controller. Despite hands-held devices, such as tablets, smart glasses can guarantee hands-free operations with their high wearability, provided that their input does not require hands. The combination of AR with a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) can provide the solution: BCI is capable of interpreting human intentions by measuring user neuronal activity.
In this talk, most interesting results of this technological research effort, as well as its further most recent developments, are reviewed. In particular, after a short survey on research at University of Naples Federico II in cooperation with CERN, the presentation focuses mainly on state-of-the-art research on a wearable monitoring system. AR glasses are integrated with a trainingless non-invasive single-channel BCI, for inspection in the framework of Industry 4.0. Average accuracy is 80% at 2.0 s of latency. A case study at CERN, for robotic inspection in hazardous sites, is also reported.

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