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

Chemical Sensor Using MIP