This book reports on the development of different control tools for Brain-machine
interface-based assistance and rehabilitation. Brain activity is analyzed with the purpose of
classify mental tasks and detecting movement intentions in patients with impaired motility.
Event-Related Desynchronization (ERD) and Event-Related Synchronization (ERS) are detected.
Throughout this book different control systems are presented and validated. This thesis
examined at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche Spain in 2016 received the award for
best thesis in bioengineering from the Bioengineering group of the Spanish Committee of
Automatic Control (CEA) in 2017.