Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

8 p.

Publication Date

9-2010

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Source Publication

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Source ISSN

1530-437X

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2055236

Abstract

Sensor drift from slowly changing environmental conditions and other instabilities can greatly degrade a chemical sensor's performance, resulting in poor identification and analyte quantification. In the present work, estimation theory (i.e., various forms of the Kalman filter) is used for online compensation of baseline drift in the response of chemical sensors. Two different cases, which depend on the knowledge of the characteristics of the sensor system, are studied. First, an unknown input is considered, which represents the practical case of analyte detection and quantification. Then, the more general case, in which the sensor parameters and the input are both unknown, is studied. The techniques are applied to simulated sensor data, for which the true baseline and response are known, and to actual liquid-phase SH-SAW sensor data measured during the detection of organophosphates. It is shown that the technique is capable of estimating the baseline signal and recovering the true sensor signal due only to the presence of the analyte. This is true even when the baseline drift changes rate or direction during the detection process or when the analyte is not completely flushed from the system.

Comments

Accepted version. Sensors Journal, IEEE, Vol. 11, No. 1 (September 2010): 225-232. DOI. © 2010 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from M.J. Wenze., A. Mensah-Brown, F. Josse, and E.E. Yaz, "Online Drift Compensation for Chemical Sensors Using Estimation Theory", IEEE Sensors Journal, September 2010.

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