Abstract:As a potential technology, brain-computer interface (BCI) has become an international research hotspot. However, for practical application, the existing BCI technology still faces many problems to be solved, such as the limited number of control commands of steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) based BCI, the low spatial resolution of induced physiological signals and the long training time of motor imagination (MI) based BCI. Some studies have shown that the hybrid brain computer interface (HBCI) is more accurate and stable than the traditional BCI (single-mode brain computer interface). In this paper, the concept of HBCI is introduced. And the research progress of HBCI, including multi-EEG modes based HBCI, multi-simulation induction based HBCI and multi-modal signals based HBCI, is described. In addition, the problems and the application of HBCI are summarized.