A software tool for large-scale synthetic experiments based on polymeric sensor arrays

• Published in: Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical Chemical, 2013-02, Vol.177, p.596-604
• Main Authors: Ziyatdinov, A., Fernández Diaz, E., Chaudry, A., Marco, S., Persaud, K., Perera, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anàlisi; Benchmark; Biosensors; Chemical detectors; Ciències de la salut; Computer programs; computer software; Conducting polymers; educational materials; Educational tool; Electronic nose; Electrònica biomèdica; Enginyeria biomèdica; Enginyeria electrònica; Gas sensor array; Instrumentació i mesura; Noise; Olfacte; Olors; polymers; processing technology; Sensor arrays; Sensor simulation; Sensors; Sensors i actuadors; Signal processing; Software; Synthetic dataset; Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
• ISSN: 0925-4005; 1873-3077
• DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.09.093

This manuscript introduces a software tool that allows for the design of synthetic experiments in machine olfaction. The proposed software package includes both, a virtual sensor array that reproduces the diversity and response of a polymer array and tools for data generation. The synthetic array of sensors allows for the generation of chemosensor data with a variety of characteristics: unlimited number of sensors, support of multicomponent gas mixtures and full parametric control of the noise in the system. The artificial sensor array is inspired from a reference database of seventeen polymeric sensors with concentration profiles for three analytes. The main features in the sensor data, like sensitivity, diversity, drift and sensor noise, are captured by a set of models under simplified assumptions. The generator of sensor signals can be used in applications related to test and benchmarking of signal processing methods, neuromorphic simulations in machine olfaction and educational tools. The software is implemented in R language and can be freely accessed at: http://chemosensors.r-forge.r-project.org/.