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