@TEKEVER Brainflight Drone using Beta Waves – How Autonomous All-Electric Airplanes are controlled with Windmills in your Mind

“We truly believe that Brainflight represents the beginning of a tremendous step change in the aviation field, empowering pilots and de-risking missions, and we're looking forward to deliver these benefits to the market with highly innovative products”

Tekever CEO Ricardo Mendes, speaking to BBC News about the use of Brainwaves in their product Brainflight to fly UAS or Drones

The Innovation space within the UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) or Drones keeps getting wider and wider.

Now, thanks to the inclusion of special software and an EEG (Electro-encephalograph), Drone designer company Tekever has made it possible to fly a Drone using your thoughts as noted in the article “Brain-controlled drone shown off by Tekever in Lisbon”, published 25 February 2015, BBC News.

The company, which works with security firms, police forces and the military, recently demonstrated their new concept in Lisbon, Portugal called Brainflight in a test flight as shown above. But is it safe? And is this the future?

Tekever Drone controlled by Beta Waves – How Autonomous All-Electric Airplanes can be controlled using Brainwaves

The Brainflight concept is really simple. The Human Brain produces the following Brainwaves which consist of three (3) types of brainwaves named after letter in the Greek Alphabet:

1.         Alpha Waves associated with relaxation

2.         Beta Waves associated with concentration

3.         Gamma Waves associated with consciousness during wakefulness i.e. Lucid Dreaming

The potential pilots undergoing months of training to focus moving a small circle on a computer screen either up or down. This helps them to train their Beta Waves (concentration) and thus allow them to control the aircrafts motion in the air.

Should in case the Pilot lose concentration, failsafe software is standing by to take over control of the aircraft, should it detect erratic Brainwave patterns inconsistent with a proper flight procedure. To quote Tekever CEO Ricardo Mende: “There are algorithms on board that prevent bad things from happening”.

Brain Controlled Aircraft – Windmills in your Mind to control of Autonomous Drones

Granted, people are already dabbling with the idea of autonomous aircraft as noted in my blog article entitled “ASTRAEA Consortium makes first Inaugural flight of an Autonomous Passenger Aircraft in April 2013 - Greek Goddeses Daughter of Zeus are now The Kings of Summer”.

To be honest, the focus in the Aircraft Industry is focused more on using less Fossil Fuels, possibly even going All-Electric in a move mimicking All-Electric Vehicles on the ground, as is the case with Airbus Group and their E-Fan All-Electric Training Aircraft as explained in my blog article entitled “Airbus Group and the E-Fan – EU's Flightpath 2050 heralds All-Electric Aircraft as Fischer–Tropsch Process makes Kerosene Renewable”.

But there is also a trend towards All-Electric Vehicles that can pilot themselves Autonomously, to the point that even Great Britain is investing some US$29 million (£19 million) in a technology that can radically revolutionize Transportation in Britain as explained in my blog article entitled “How Britain will make US$29 billion from Driverless Cars by 2025 - British Government's US$29 million Driverless Vehicles Gamble”.

And in Australia, Mining Company Rio Tinto already has Trucks that are remotely controlled with the Supervisors monitoring their activity of the mine from their NOC (Network Operations Center) as explained in my blog article entitled “Australia and Robots in Farming and Mining - Why Programming taught at Early Childhood necessary as Robots and Drones need Drone Pilots, Supervisors and Engineers”.

Human Consciousness in All-Electric Vehicles – the Windmills in your Mind take Flight

Eventually this trend will spread to the skies.

But in order to track the planes in flight, the idea of connecting the Pilot’s brain to the aircraft from the ground, bypassing his hands being used on a joystick, is somewhat radical and may be difficult to accept by many, says, a London-based independent aviation consultant John Strickland, quote: “This to me is certainly at the moment a bridge too far”.

Best of all, this idea by Tekever may be a solution to Autonomous Drones flying out of line of sight, which is not allowed under the recently formulated UAS Guidelines as laid down by the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) in the US of A as reported in my blog article entitled “FAA's Regulations for Drones - How UAS Benefit American Economy despite Restrictive FAA Regulations by 2016”.

It may even be possibly for humans to also upload their consciousness into these self-driving vehicles, making them as one with the Autonomous All-Electric Vehicle, be it a Motor Vehicle or even an Airplane. No wonder London-based independent aviation consultant John Strickland said we may have just gone too far!

This is an eventual possibility, once the EEG tech becomes more sensitive and can cancel out “brain noise” and also have an autonomous system that can takeover, should in case the Pilot have an epileptic seizure, a stroke or just doze off.

The Future of Autonomous Drones may be powered by the very windmills in your Mind.