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A vibro-tactile stimulation and vibro-signature synchronization device was proposed in this paper. The device was used to elicit steady-state somatosensory evoked potential (SSSEP) and synchronize the actual vibraion information with the corresponding electroencephalography (EEG) signals in temporal domain. The device provided five independent stimulation channels and could generate vibro-tactile stimulation with arbitrary waveform, amplitude and frequency. Each channel used the intended stimulation waveform to drive a linear resonant actuator (LRA). The vibro-signature of each channel could be detected by a force sensing resistor (FSR) and fed back into the EEG recording system. Four stimulation patterns with a random sequence were applied to the index finger of three healthy subjects. Results showed that SSSEP features could be evoked with different stimulation patterns and the actual vibro-signature could be synchronized with the EEG signals. Comparing the actual stimulation with the intended stimulation, the errors of carrier frequency and modulation frequency were quite small. Results indicated that this novel device stood a good chance of serving in SSSEP-based studies.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51620105002). The authors thank all the volunteers for their participation in the study.
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Ye, H., Xie, T., Yao, L., Sheng, X., Zhu, X. (2017). A Vibro-tactile Stimulation and Vibro-signature Synchronization Device for SSSEP-Based Study. In: Huang, Y., Wu, H., Liu, H., Yin, Z. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10464. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65298-6_6
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