Signal processing of multichannel FET type electrolyte sensors using neural network

신경회로망을 이용한 다중채널 FET형 전해질 센서의 신호처리

  • 이정민 (경북대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 이창수 (경북대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 손병기 (경북대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 이은석 (경북대학교 화학과) ;
  • 이흥락 (경북대학교 전자전기공학부)
  • Published : 1997.11.01

Abstract

Ths signal processing technqiue of FET type electrolyte sensors using the back propagation neural network was studied to reduce the interference effects of the different electrolytes. The FET-type electrolyte sensors, pH-ISFET, K-ISFET, and Ca-ISFET, were prepared to measure the pH, K, and Ca electrolytes. Neural network consisted of three layers was learned with 8 patterns and 9 patterns. The sensor output obtained with arbitrary concentrations was processed by the learned neural network. The errors obtained from calibration curve for pH, K, and Ca were .+-.0.039 pH, .+-.2.508 mmol/l, and .+-.1.807 mmol/l, respectively, without considering the interference effects. The errors of the network output for pH, K, and Ca were reduced to .+-.0.005 pH, .+-.0.436 mmol/l, and .+-.0.381 mmol/l in case of 9 patterns, respectively. the signal processing using the neural network can reduce the errors ofthe electrolyte sensor outputs caused by the interference effect, thereby providing effectiveness in the improvement of the sensor selectivity.

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