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. 2018 Apr 11;18(4):1179. doi: 10.3390/s18041179

Table 5.

Methods for suppressing drift of sensors.

Ref No. Author (year) Gas Sensors/e-Nose System Sampling Type Gases to Be Detected Interference Source Data Processing Method Effects
[53] T. Artursson, et al. (2000) The e-nose contains two arrays of 10 MOSFET sensors, and two arrays of MOS sensors containing 10 and 9 sensors respectively. Pump suction Hydrogen, ammonia, ethanol, ethene Sensor drift PCA, PLS, CC Root mean square errors: less than 10 ppm.
[54] M. Padilla, et al. (2010) 17 conductive polymer gas sensors Pump suction Ammonia, propanoic acid and n-butanol Sensor drift OSC, CC OSC is a suitable method for drift correction in a longer time.
[55] A.C. Romain, et al. (2010) TGS822, TGS880, TGS842, TGS2610, TGS2620, TGS2180 Pump suction Print house odor and compost odor Sensor drift Multivariate array correction, univariate sensor correction, signal pre-processing F criterion: 33; 56, 26, 18 for: no correction, correction by univariate multiplicative factor, correction by PLS: correction by PCA.
[56] L. Zhang, et al. (2013) TGS2602, TGS2620, TGS2201 Diffusion sampling HCHO, CO, C6H6, C7H8, NH3, NO2 Sensor drift PSR and RBF neural network RMSEP: less than 0.005
[57] L. Zhang, et al. (2016) TGS2602, TGS2620, TGS2201 Diffusion sampling HCHO, CO, C6H6, C7H8, NH3, NO2 Sensor drift ARMA and Kalman filter models RMSEP: TGS2602: 0.004, TGS2201A: 0.0039, TGS2201B: 0.0134
[58] M. Holmberg et al. (1997) 10 MOSFET, 4 Tagu-chi and 1 CO2 monitor Pump suction 1-propanol, 2-propanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol Sensor drift Adaptive estimation algorithm, recursive least squares algorithm Recognition rate: static model: 85%; recursive model 91%.
[59] S. Marco, et al. (1997) TGS822, TGS813, TGS815, TGS812a, TGS812b, TGS812 Pump suction H2, CO, CO2 and CH4 Sensor drift Adaptive SOM Recognition rate: higher than 97%.
[60] M. Zuppa, et al. (2004) 32 conducting polymer gas sensors (A32S) Pump suction Acetonitrile, methanol, propanol, acetone and butanol Sensor drift mSOM neural network Recognition rate: 97.2%.
[61] S. De Vito, et al. (2012) Five semiconductors Pump suction Six single coffee varieties and 8 blends Sensor drift A boosting-like approach to semi- supervised learning (SSL) Recognition rate: higher than 92.5%.
[61] S. De Vito, et al. (2012) 5 Metal Oxides (MOX) sensors, temperature and Relative Humidity (RH) sensors Pump suction CO, Benzene, NMHC, NOx, NO2 Sensor drift SSL, SSL-based adaptive strategy Mean absolute error: performance gain of 11.5%.
[62] Q. Liu, et al. (2014) 16 metal-oxide gas sensors Pump suction Acetone, acetaldehyde ethanol, ethylene, ammonia, toluene Sensor drift comgfk (combination of weighted geodesic flow kernels), comgfk-ml (comgfk with manifold regularization) The comgfk-ml can effectively handle sensor drift.
[63] L. Zhang, et al. (2015) 16 metal-oxide gas sensors Pump suction Acetone, acetaldehyde ethanol, ethylene, ammonia and toluene Sensor drift DAELM Average recognition rate: Setting 1: 91.86%; Setting 2: 91.82%.
[48] K. Yan and D. Zhang. (2016) 16 metal-oxide gas sensors Pump suction Acetone, acetaldehyde ethanol, ethylene, ammonia and toluene Sensor drift TCTL, SEMI Average recognition rate: 87.6.
[64] K. Yan and D. Zhang. (2016) 16 metal-oxide gas sensors Pump suction Acetone, acetaldehyde ethanol, ethylene, ammonia and toluene Sensor drift DCAE, the basic DCAE (DCAE-basic), DCAE with correction layer (DCAE-CL) Average recognition rate: DCAE-basic: 92.59%±0.61; DCAE-CL: 93.21%±0.52
TGS4161, TGS822, TGS826, WSP2111, SP3S-AQ2, GSBT11, TGS2610-D00, TGS2600-TM, TGS2602-TM, WSP2111-TM, HTG3515CH Pump suction Diabetes, chronical kidney disease, cardiopathy, lung cancer, breast cancer Sensor drift DCAE, the basic DCAE (DCAE-basic), DCAE with correction layer (DCAE-CL) Average recognition rate: DCAE-basic: 81.84% ± 0.67; DCAE-CL: 84.13 ± 0.82.
[65] S. AlMaskari, et al. (2014) 16 metal-oxide gas sensors Pump suction Acetone, acetaldehyde ethanol, ethylene, ammonia and toluene Sensor drift Kernel fuzzy C-means clustering and KFSVM Average recognition rate: 82.18%
[66] A. Vergara, et al. (2012) 16 metal-oxide gas sensors Pump suction Acetone, acetaldehyde ethanol, ethylene, ammonia and toluene Sensor drift Ensemble of classifiers (weighted combination of SVM) The classifier ensembles were better than baseline classifiers.