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Human-robot collaboration has the potential to maximize the efficiency of the operation of autonomous robots. Brain-machine interface (BMI) would be a desirable technology to collaborate with robots since the intention or state of users can…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely used for boosting the performance of many machine intelligence tasks. However, the CNN models are usually computationally intensive and energy consuming, since they are often designed…

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