| Title: | A Robot Equipped with a High-Speed LSPR Gas Sensor Module for Collecting Spatial Odor Information from On-Ground Invisible Odor Sources |
| Author(s): | Yang Z; Sassa F; Hayashi K; |
| Address: | "Graduate School and Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering , Kyushu University , 744 Motooka , Nishi-ku , Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan" |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acssensors.8b00214 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2379-3694 (Electronic) 2379-3694 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Improving the efficiency of detecting the spatial distribution of gas information with a mobile robot is a great challenge that requires rapid sample collection, which is basically determined by the speed of operation of gas sensors. The present work developed a robot equipped with a high-speed gas sensor module based on localized surface plasmon resonance. The sensor module is designed to sample gases from an on-ground odor source, such as a footprint material or artificial odor marker, via a fine sampling tubing. The tip of the sampling tubing was placed close to the ground to reduce the sampling time and the effect of natural gas diffusion. On-ground ethanol odor sources were detected by the robot at high resolution (i.e., 2.5 cm when the robot moved at 10 cm/s), and the reading of gas information was demonstrated experimentally. This work may help in the development of environmental sensing robots, such as the development of odor source mapping and multirobot systems with pheromone tracing" |
| Keywords: | Gases/analysis Odorants/*analysis Particle Size Robotics/*instrumentation Surface Plasmon Resonance/*instrumentation Surface Properties gas detection localized surface plasmon resonance mobile robot odor robot on-ground odor source; |
| Notes: | "MedlineYang, Zhongyuan Sassa, Fumihiro Hayashi, Kenshi eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2018/06/01 ACS Sens. 2018 Jun 22; 3(6):1174-1181. doi: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00214. Epub 2018 Jun 8" |
