BIOMIMETICS AND SENSOR FUSION APPLIED TO CHEMICAL SENSOR ARRAYS

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BIOMIMETICS AND SENSOR FUSION APPLIED TO CHEMICAL
SENSOR ARRAYS

• THADDEUS ROPPEL
• ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
• AUBURN UNIVERSITY

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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
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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

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Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
Dario Kriz, Olof Ramström, Klaus Mosbach, Lund
University (Sweden) Analytical Chemistry 1997,
69, 345A-349A
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Chemical Sensor Using MIP