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EOG Based Low Cost Device for Controlling Home Appliances

Aswin Raj V, Karthik Raj V

Paralysis is one amongst the major neural disorder that causes loss of motion of one or more muscles of the body, wherein depending on the cause, it may affect a specific muscle group or region of the body, or a larger area may be involved. In pursuit of rehabilitation, the eye can be regarded as one of the organs that can help a paralyzed person to communicate suitably. Eye movement can be used by the paralysis patients and armless persons to perform simple tasks. This paper describes the acquisition and analysis of EOG signals for activation of home appliances for paralysis patients. The proposed method here uses a minimum number of electrodes for signal acquisition thereby reducing the occurrence of artifacts, further following a simple circuitry for implementation of signal conditioning which is also cost effective from the user point of view. The standing potentials in the eye can be estimated by measuring the voltage induced across a system of electrodes placed around the eyes as the eye-gaze changes, thus obtaining the EOG. And this EOG signal can be used as an input for a microcontroller in order to control home appliances.