An Optimized E-nose for Efficient Volatile Sensing and Discrimination

Gonçalo Santos, Cláudia Alves, Ana Carolina Pádua, Susana Palma, Hugo Gamboa, Ana Cecília Roque

2019

Abstract

Electronic noses (E-noses), are usually composed by an array of sensors with different selectivities towards classes of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). These devices have been applied to a variety of fields, including environmental protection, public safety, food and beverage industries, cosmetics, and clinical diagnostics. This work demonstrates that it is possible to classify eleven VOCs from different chemical classes using a single gas sensing biomaterial that changes its optical properties in the presence of VOCs. To accomplish this, an in-house built E-nose, tailor-made for the novel class of gas sensing biomaterials, was improved and combined with powerful machine learning techniques. The device comprises a delivery system, a detection system and a data acquisition and control system. It was designed to be stable, miniaturized and easy-to-handle. The data collected was pre-processed and features and curve fitting parameters were extracted from the original response. A recursive feature selection method was applied to select the best features, and then a Support Vector Machine classifier was implemented to distinguish the eleven distinct VOCs. The results show that the followed methodology allowed the classification of all the VOCs tested with 94.6% (± 0.9%) accuracy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Santos G., Alves C., Pádua A., Palma S., Gamboa H. and Roque A. (2019). An Optimized E-nose for Efficient Volatile Sensing and Discrimination. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES; ISBN 978-989-758-353-7, SciTePress, pages 36-46. DOI: 10.5220/0007390700360046

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices19,
author={Gonçalo Santos and Cláudia Alves and Ana Carolina Pádua and Susana Palma and Hugo Gamboa and Ana Cecília Roque},
title={An Optimized E-nose for Efficient Volatile Sensing and Discrimination},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES},
year={2019},
pages={36-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007390700360046},
isbn={978-989-758-353-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES
TI - An Optimized E-nose for Efficient Volatile Sensing and Discrimination
SN - 978-989-758-353-7
AU - Santos G.
AU - Alves C.
AU - Pádua A.
AU - Palma S.
AU - Gamboa H.
AU - Roque A.
PY - 2019
SP - 36
EP - 46
DO - 10.5220/0007390700360046
PB - SciTePress