EU has funded a project named “BrainFlight” which will enable a plane to be thought controlled. With this concept, a pilot can control the plane without his hands and feet. His brain will do all the work.
Brain impulses are translated into control commands which will allows a pilot to to achieve a range of remarkably precise manipulation without touching the controls or pedals, says a team of scientists from the Institue for Flight System Dynamics and the Berlin Institute of Technology.
A pilot in the simulator will have to wear a cap with many cables attached to it. And it was seen that with this setting, the pilot could land a plane swiftly using the control stick with his thoughts by just looking at the screen and changing the plane's postion repeatedly placing it at the precise spot until it lands.
In order to achieve the set target, researchers connected electroencephalography(EEG) electrodes to a cap which was used to measure the pilot's brain waves. An algorithm was used to execute a program, which converted the deciphered brain waves into commands that could be fed into the plane's control system.
This thought-controlled plane will reduce the workload on the pilot and will increase safety of the passengers. The pilot will not be restricted to his seat and will be able to manage several other tasks within the cockpit.
