A Bio-Inspired Pattern Recognition System for Tin-Oxide Gas Sensor Applications

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 713-722

  Far, Aicha Beya ^a   Flitti, Farid ^a   Guo, Bin ^a   Bermak, Amine ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gas identification; gas sensor arrays; machine olfaction; pattern analysis; self organized map (SOM) algorithm; temperature modulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008033778     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2020116     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. B. Raman, A. Gutierrez-Galvez, A. Perera-Lluna, and R. Gutierrez- Osuna, “An electronic nose system for monitoring the quality of potable water”, in Proc. 2004 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst., Sendai, Japan, 2004.
2. O. Rochel, D. Martinez, E. Hugues, and F. Sarry, “Stereo-olfaction with a sniffing neuromorphic robot using spiking neurons”, in Proc. 16th Eur. Conf. Solid-State Transducers—EUROSENSORS, Prague, Czech Republic, 2000.
3. J. W. Gardner, M. Craven, C. Dow, and E. L. Hines, “Prediction of bacteria type and growth phase by an electronic nose with a multi-layer perceptron network”, Meas. Sci. Technol., vol. 9, pp. 120–127, 1998.
4. J. W. Gardner, H. W. Shin, E. L. Hines, and C. S. Dow, “An electronic nose system for monitoring the quality of potable water”, Sens. Actuators, vol. 69, pp. 336–341, 2000.
5. H. T. Nagle, R. Gutierrez-Osuna, B. G. Kermani, and S.S. Schiffman, Handbook of Machine Olfaction: Electronic Nose Technology. New York: Wiley, 2002.
6. T. C. Pearce, P. F. M. J. Verschure, J. White, and J. S,, S. Wermter, J. Austin, and D. Willshaw, Eds., “Robust stimulus encoding in olfactory processing: Hyperacuity and efficient signal transmission”, in Emergent Neural Computation Architectures Based on Neuroscience. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 461–479.
7. P. I. Neaves and J. V. Hatfield, “A new generation of integrated electronic noses”, Sens. Actuators B, vol. 26, no. 27, pp. 223–231, 1995.
8. B. Guo, A. Bermak, P. C. H. Chan, and G. Yan, “A monolithic integrated 4 × 4 tin oxide gas sensor array with on-chip multiplexing and differential readout circuits”, Solid State Electron., vol. 51, pp. 47–54, 2007.
9. 2sensors: Current status and future prospects”, Sens. Actuators B, vol. 26, no. 27, pp. 1–12, 1995.
10. M. Y. Afridi et al., “A monolithic CMOS microhotplate-based gas sensor system”, IEEE Sensors J., vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 644–655, Dec. 2002.
11. S. Brahim-Belhouari, A. Bermak, M. Shi, and P. C. H. Chan, “Fast and robust gas identification system using an integrated gas sensor technology and Gaussian mixture models”, IEEE Sensors J., vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1433–1444, Dec. 2005.
12. C. Cane, I. Gracia, A. Gotz, L. Fonseca, E. Lora-Tamayo, M. C. Horrillo, I. Sayago, J. I. Robla, J. Rodrigo, and J. Gutirrez, “Detection of gases with arrays of micromachined tin oxide gas sensors”, Sens. Actuators B, vol. 65, pp. 244–246, 2000.
13. A. Dieguez, J. L. Merino, R. Casanova, S. A. Bota, J. Samitier, M. J. Lopez, J. A. Plaza, I. Gracia, and C. Cane, “A CMOS monolithically integrated gas sensor array with electronics for temperature control and signal interfacing”, IECON, vol. 4, no. 5–8, pp. 2727–2732, Nov. 2002.
14. U. Frey, M. Graf, S. Taschini, K.-U. Kirstein, C. Hagleitner, A. Hierlemann, and H. Baltes, “A digital CMOS micro-hotplate array for analysis of environmentally relevant gases”, ESSCIRC, pp. 299–302, Sept. 2004.
15. R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart, and D. G. Stork, Pattern Classification. New York: Wiley, 2001.
16. M. Shi, A. Bermak, S. B. Belhouari, and P. Chan, “Gas identification based on a committee machine for microelectronics gas sensors”, IEEE Trans. Instrument. Measure., vol. 55, pp. 1786–1793, 2006.
17. B. Guo, A. Bermak, G. Yan, and P. C. H. Chan, “A 4 × 4 tin oxide gas sensor array with surface micro-machined convex micro-hotplates”, IEEE Sensors, vol. 3, pp. 214–217, Oct. 2006.
18. B. Guo, A. Bermak, G. Yan, and P. C. H. Chan, “An integrated surface micromachined convex microhotplate structure for tin oxide gas sensor array”, IEEE Sensors J., vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1720–1727, Dec. 2007.
19. A. Gutierrez-Galvez, R. Gutierrez-Osuna, and N. U. Powar, “Transient response analysis for temperature modulated chemoresistors”, Sens. Actuators B: Chem. B, vol. 93, no. 1–3, pp. 57–66, 2003.
20. A. P. Lee and B. J. Reedy, “Temperature modulation in semiconductor gas sensing”, Sens. Actuators B 60, vol. 60, pp. 35–42, 1999.
21. K. Colbow, W. M. Sears, and F. Consadori, “General characteristics of thermally cycled tin oxide gas sensors”, Semicond. Sci. Technol, vol. 4, pp. 351–359, 1989.
22. K. Colbow, W. M. Sears, and F. Consadori, “Algorithms to improve the selectivity of thermally cycled tin oxide gas sensors”, Sens. Actuators, vol. 19, pp. 333–349, 1989.
23. A. Reis, A. P. Troup, S. Bukowiecki, G. Pfister, and H. P. Ulli, “Gas or vapor alarm system including scanning gas sensors”, U.S. Patent 4567475, 1986.
24. K. Colbow, S. Wlodek, and F. Consadori, “Signal-shape analysis of a thermally cycled tin oxide gas sensor”, Sens. Actuators B, vol. 3, pp. 63–68, 1991.
25. G. Sberveglieri, W. Hellmich, and G. Muller, “Silicon hotplates for metal oxide gas sensor elements”, Microsystem Technol., vol. 3, pp. 183–190, 1997.
26. B. Raman and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Concentration normalization with a model of gain control in the olfactory bulb”, Sens. Actuators B: Chem., vol. 116, no. 1–2, pp. 36–42, 2006.
27. G. F. Hughes, “On the mean accuracy of statistical pattern recognizers”, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 55–63, 1968.
28. B. Raman, P. Sun, A. Gutierrez-Galvez, and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Processing of chemical sensor arrays with a biologically-inspired model of olfactory coding”, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1015–1024, 2006.
29. G. Laurent, “A system perspective on early olfactory coding”, Science 286, vol. 22, pp. 723–728, 1999.
30. M. Meister and T. Bonhoeffer, “Tuning and topography in an odor map on the ra olfactory bulb”, J. Neurosci., vol. 21, pp. 1351–1360, 2001.
31. B. A. Johnson and M. Leon, “Modular representation of odorants in the glomerular layer of the rat olfactory bulb and the effects of stimulus concentration”, J. Compar. Neurol., vol. 422, pp. 496–509, 2000.
32. T. Kohonen, “Self-organized formation of topologically correct feature maps”, Biol. Cybern., vol. 43, pp. 59–69, 1982.
33. M. K. Hu, “Visual pattern recognition by moment invariants”, IR Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 8, pp. 179–187, 1962.
34. R. Mukundan and K. R. Ramakrishman, Moment Functions in Image Analysis: Theory and Application. Singapore: World Scientific, 1998.
35. Handbook of Machine Olfaction: Electronic Nose Technology, T. C. Pearce, S. S. Schiffman, H. T. Nagle, and J. W. Gardner, Eds. New York: Wiley, 2002.
36. A. Bermak, S. B. Belhouari, M. Shi, and D. Martinez, “Pattern recognition techniques for odor discrimination in gas sensor array”, in The Encyclopedia of Sensors. Valencia,, CA: American Scientific Publishers, 2005.
37. R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Pattern analysis for machine olfaction: A review”, IEEE Sensors J., vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 189–202, 2002.