Post on 19-Dec-2015
BIOMIMETICS AND SENSOR FUSION APPLIED TO CHEMICAL
SENSOR ARRAYS
THADDEUS ROPPEL
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
BIOMIMETICS DEFINED
BIOMIMETICS: Application of biological mechanisms to engineered systems
Artificial neural networks for pattern matching in the presence of noise and uncertainty
Fabrication of molecularly imprinted polymers – “plastic antibodies”
Robot “geckos” that can climb, insects that can fly
SENSOR FUSION DEFINED
SENSOR FUSION: Combining inputs from a variety of sensors to synthesize a unified representation of the environment
Examples:• Multi-spectral
imaging
• Distributed chemical sensor arrays
• ID by fingerprint + voice + retina
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
Dario Kriz, Olof Ramström, Klaus Mosbach, Lund University (Sweden)
Analytical Chemistry 1997, 69, 345A-349A