Operation assistance for the Bio-Remote environmental control system using a Bayesian Network-based prediction model

This paper proposes a Bayesian Network (BN) based prediction model for a layer-based selection and its application to an operation assistance for the environmental control system Bio-Remote (BR). In the proposed method, each node of the BN model is involved in the layer-based selection function, which corresponds to an individual operation command, appliance, etc., and previous logs of operation commands and time division are used as input factors to predict the user's intended operation. The prediction results are displayed on the layer-based selection for the BR, and the number of times of operations and time taken for the operations can be reduced with the proposed prediction model. In the experiments, life-logs were collected from a cervical spinal injury patient who used the BR in daily life, and the proposed model was trained based on these recorded life-logs. The prediction accuracy for control devices of the BR system using the proposed model was 84.3 ± 6.5 %. The results indicated that the proposed prediction model could be useful for the operation assistance of the BR system.