Type:
Journal
Description:
Artificial olfaction was introduced as a model tool to investigateolfaction properties [1]. Nonetheless, the only analogy between the natural and the artificial system lies just in the selectivity proper- ties of the receptors. The implementation of more sophisticated fea- tures such as the large number of receptors and the glomerular layer have been hampered by technical difficulties related to the manage- ment of large numbers of simultaneous signals.As demonstrated in the past, optical imaging is a read-out tech- nique for sensors development that can provide large sensor arrays [2]. On that basis, we recently introduced an artificial olfaction sys- tem based on the imaging of a continuous layer of chemical indi- cators [3]. In this situation an image sensor provides a segmentation of the whole sensing layer in a number of elementary units corre- sponding to the pixels of the image. Eventually, since it is possible to …
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication date:
1 Jan 2011
Biblio References:
Volume: 36 Issue: 1 Pages: E4-E4
Origin:
Chemical Senses