Electronic Nose Odor Classification with Advanced Decision Tree Structures

Electronic nose (e-nose) is an electronic device which can measure chemical compounds in air and consequently classify different odors. In this paper, an e-nose device consisting of 8 different gas sensors was designed and constructed. Using this device, 104 different experiments involving 11 differ...

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Main Authors: S. Guney, A. Atasoy, R. Burget
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Spolecnost pro radioelektronicke inzenyrstvi 2013-09-01
Series:Radioengineering
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Online Access:http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2013/13_03_0874_0882.pdf
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Summary:Electronic nose (e-nose) is an electronic device which can measure chemical compounds in air and consequently classify different odors. In this paper, an e-nose device consisting of 8 different gas sensors was designed and constructed. Using this device, 104 different experiments involving 11 different odor classes (moth, angelica root, rose, mint, polis, lemon, rotten egg, egg, garlic, grass, and acetone) were performed. The main contribution of this paper is the finding that using the chemical domain knowledge it is possible to train an accurate odor classification system. The domain knowledge about chemical compounds is represented by a decision tree whose nodes are composed of classifiers such as Support Vector Machines and k-Nearest Neighbor. The overall accuracy achieved with the proposed algorithm and the constructed e-nose device was 97.18 %. Training and testing data sets used in this paper are published online.
ISSN:1210-2512