This application claims the benefit of Taiwan Patent Application No. 104114472, filed on May 6, 2015, in the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present disclosure generally relates to a handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof, in particular to a handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof for detecting gas by cascading a plurality of sensing chips.
2. Description of the Related Art
Currently, the standard gas sensing inspection mode is to analyze the collected gases by the Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrophotometer (GC-MC) or Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FT-IR) in laboratory. Although the components of the gas can be accurately analyzed through the large instruments in the laboratory, such treatment may lack of instantaneity and popularity. As a result, developing the portable, rapid detecting and economical gas sensing device is indeed imperative.
Generally, the gas analysis includes sensing the external gases or gases exhaled from human body, and such detection result may demonstrate situations of the environmental pollution or the human body health. The current gas sensing device such as electronic nose has a larger volume, but it is still limited to the specific target gas detection and not able to accurately detect various gases and the masses are therefore dissatisfied with the portability and usage of the current gas sensing device. In addition, when collecting the external gases or gases exhaled from human body, the sample of the collected gas may be affected to cause erroneous recognition result due to the temperature and humidity.
As mentioned above, the inventor of the present disclosure has been mulling the technical problem over and then designs a gas sensing device and gas sensing method thereof to aim to shortcomings of the existing technique so as to promote the industrial practicability.
In view of the foregoing technical problem, the objective of the present disclosure provides a handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof to resolve the problem concerning that the existing gas sensing device is incapable of sensing gas instantly and commonly.
According to one objective of the present disclosure, a handheld gas sensing device is provided, which includes a plurality of gas sensing chips and a gas collector. The plurality of gas sensing chips include a sensing array, a sensing interface circuit, a microcontroller and a memory. The sensing array includes a sensing thin film and a sensor. The sensing thin film is provided for absorbing gas, such that a to-be-detected gas exhaled from mouth or nose is absorbed and a to-be-detected gas signal is produced by the sensor. The sensing interface circuit is connected to the sensing array and converting the to-be-detected gas signal into a visible operand. The microcontroller is connected to the sensing interface circuit and projecting the visible operand to a hidden operand by utilizing a calculation of Continuous Restricted Boltzman Machine (CRBM) to calculate a distributed result of the to-be-detected gas and comparing the distributed result with a probability model of a target gas to obtain a probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the target gas. The memory is recording the target gas and the probability model of the target gas and recording the probability of a comparison result. The gas collector is directly collecting the to-be-detected gas exhaled from mouth or nose, and the to-be-detected gas is transferred to the sensing array through a transfer pipeline. The plurality of gas sensing chips are cascaded to each other such that the microcontrollers of the plurality of gas sensing chips collaboratively work together, and the hidden operand of one of the gas sensing chips produced through projection and calculation is served as the visible operand of another gas sensing chip to be projected again to produce another hidden operand, and the distributed result produced by a multi-layer calculation of Continuous Restricted Boltzman Machine is compared with the probability model to obtain the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the target gas.
Preferably, the plurality of gas sensing chips may correspond to respective target gases, and the plurality of the gas sensing chips are connected in parallel with each other to simultaneously obtain the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the respective target gases.
Preferably, the handheld gas sensing device may further include a temperature-humidity sensor including a resistance having a temperature coefficient and a humidity coefficient, and a measured value of the resistance is producing a temperature-humidity signal to correct the visible operand of the to-be-detected gas according to the temperature-humidity signal.
Preferably, the probability model may include a classifier and the classifier classifies the distributed result and compares the distributed result with the probability model to obtain the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the target gas.
Preferably, the classifier may classify the distributed result by a linear programming model or a support vector model.
Preferably, the sensing thin film may include a plurality of nanoporous carbon materials and a polymer grows in pores of the nanoporous carbon materials to absorb the to-be-detected gas.
Preferably, the sensor may include a conductive polymer gas sensor and a surface acoustic wave sensor.
Preferably, the handheld gas sensing device may further include a display device to display the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the target gas.
According to another objective of the present disclosure, a gas sensing method is provided, which includes following step: directly collecting a to-be-detected gas exhaled from mouth or nose by a gas collector of a handheld gas sensing device and transporting the to-be-detected gas to a plurality of gas sensing chips through a transfer pipeline, and each of the plurality of gas sensing chip including a sensing array; absorbing the to-be-detected gas by a sensing thin film of the sensing array and producing a to-be-detected gas signal by a sensor; converting the to-be-detected gas signal into a visible operand and transmitting the visible operand to a microcontroller by a sensing interface circuit; projecting the visible operand to a hidden operand by utilizing a calculation of Continuous Restricted Boltzman Machine (CRBM) to calculate a distributed result of the to-be-detected gas; cascading the plurality of gas sensing sensors with each other to enable microcontrollers of the plurality of gas sensing sensors to work together collaboratively and producing the hidden operand of one of the gas sensing chips through projection and calculation to serve as the visible operand of another gas sensing chip so as to be projected again to produce another hidden operand, and producing the distributed result by a multi-layer calculation of Continuous Restricted Boltzman Machine; comparing the distributed result with a probability model stored in a memory to obtain a probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to a target gas.
Preferably, the plurality of gas sensing chips may correspond to respective target gases, and the plurality of the gas sensing chips are connected in parallel with each other to simultaneously obtain the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the respective target gases.
Preferably, the gas sensing method may further include following step: producing a temperature-humidity signal by a temperature-humidity sensor to correct the visible operand of the to-be-detected gas, and the temperature-humidity sensor comprising a resistance having a temperature coefficient and a humidity coefficient.
Preferably, the distributed result of the to-be-detected gas may be classified by a classifier and the distributed result is compared with the probability model.
Preferably, the classifier may classify the distributed result by a linear programming model or a support vector model.
Preferably, the sensing thin film may include a plurality of nanoporous carbon materials and a polymer grows in pores of the nanoporous carbon materials to absorb the to-be-detected gas.
Preferably, the sensor may include a conductive polymer gas sensor and a surface acoustic wave sensor.
Preferably, the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the target gas may be displayed by a display device.
As mentioned previously, the handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof disclosed in the present disclosure may have one or more following advantages.
(1) The handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof integrate the sensing device on the chips and cascade the plurality of gas sensing chips so as to be expanded, such that the handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof are capable of sensing various target gases. In addition, the chips are connected to work together collaboratively to group and recognize the sensing signals of the sensor more precisely.
(2) The handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof are able to calculate the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the respective target gases, not merely determining the sensed result by one decision. Hence, it is able to avoid that different target gases having signal superposition are neglected to lead to a misjudgment of the sensed result.
(3) The handheld gas sensing device and sensing method thereof can measure the temperature and humidity signals of the to-be-detected gas to compensate the gas sensing signal through the temperature and humidity signals so as to avoid the negative effect of the sensed result when collecting gas.
In order to facilitate the understanding of the technical features, the contents and the advantages of the present disclosure, and the effectiveness thereof that can be achieved, the present disclosure will be illustrated in detail below through embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. On the other hand, the diagrams used herein are merely intended to be schematic and auxiliary to the specification, but are not necessary to be true scale and precise configuration after implementing the present disclosure. Thus, it should not be interpreted in accordance with the scale and the configuration of the accompanying drawings to limit the scope of the present disclosure on the practical implementation.
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In addition, the sensing array 11 further includes a temperature-humidity sensor. The temperature and humidity of the to-be-detected gas may change the resistance to affect the sensed result when the sensing array 11 is reacting, and thus, the temperature-humidity sensor is provided to measure the temperature and humidity. For example, the resistances having a temperature coefficient and a humidity coefficient are respectively arranged, and when the to-be-detected gas is passing, a temperature sensing signal and a humidity sensing signal produced by the change of the resistances and a reciprocal effect value of the influence values of temperature and humidity variations measured in advance are used to compensate the detection signal of the to-be-detected gas. The formula of the sensing signal compensation is stated as follows.
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S={s1, s2 . . . sd} is a d-dimensional sensing signal, s(To, Ho) denotes the sensing signal at temperature T0 and humidity Ho. When the temperature and humidity variations are respectively Tn and Hn, the sensing signal s(Tn, Hn) needs to be added the influential value of the temperature variation fT (ΔT), the influential value of the humidity variation fH(ΔH) and the influential value of the reciprocal effect value of the influence values of temperature and humidity variations fTH(ΔT, ΔH). The functional relations of the aforementioned influential values may be made by the reaction of the temperature and humidity measured by the sensor in advance. For example, the model inferred by the relation between the resistivity and temperature. As a result, when detecting the gas, the temperature-humidity sensor respectively measures the rate of change of the to-be-detected gas and the predetermined temperature and humidity, and then the sensing signal is compensated according to the variations, so as to obtain the signal of the to-be-detected gas more precisely.
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Vi is the value of ith visible operand, h1 is the value of the jth hidden operand, wii is the connection weight therebetween, aj is the sigmoid inclination of the function of the hidden operand hj, φ(x) is the sigmoid function. After calculating the probability Pr(d1), Pr(d2) . . . Pr(dk) for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the respective target gases, a reciprocal diagram 32 showing the probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to respective kth gas sensing chips is shown on the display device of the gas sensing device, not directly determining that the to-be-detected gas belongs to certain specific target gas, and the user is able to determine the percentage for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the specific gas through the probability. Such recognition method is to use the chips, which are respectively characterized of sensing certain target gas, to form multiple expert systems to recognize the types of the gases and avoid whether the to-be-detected gas belongs to certain associated gas through a decisive recognition manner, such that the target gas having the same sensing signal may be deleted. As a result, the gas sensing device is free from causing errors.
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Step S1: Directly collecting a to-be-detected gas exhaled from mouth or nose by a gas collector of a handheld gas sensing device. The collected to-be-detected gas is transported to a plurality of gas sensing chips through a transfer pipeline. Each of the plurality of gas sensing chips includes a sensing array, and the plurality of sensing chips corresponds to different target gas, so as to increase the types of sensing gases.
Step S2: Absorbing the to-be-detected gas by a sensing thin film of the sensing array and producing a to-be-detected gas signal by a sensor. The sensing thin film includes a plurality of nanoporous carbon materials and a polymer grows in pores of the nanoporous carbon materials to absorb the to-be-detected gas. The sensor includes a conductive polymer gas sensor and a surface acoustic wave sensor.
Step S3: Converting the to-be-detected gas signal into a visible operand and transmitting the visible operand to a microcontroller by a sensing interface circuit.
Step S4: Projecting the visible operand to a hidden operand by utilizing a calculation of Continuous Restricted Boltzman Machine to calculate a distributed result of the to-be-detected gas.
Step S5: Cascading the plurality of gas sensing sensors with each other to enable microcontrollers of the plurality of gas sensing sensors to work together collaboratively and producing a distributed result by a multi-layer calculation of Continuous Restricted Boltzman Machine. The collaborative working method is producing the hidden operand of one of the gas sensing chips through projection and calculation to serve as the visible operand of another gas sensing chip so as to be projected again to produce another hidden operand. Thereby, the multi-layer calculation of continuous restricted Boltzman machine is completed.
Step S6: Comparing the distributed result with a probability model stored in the memory to obtain a probability for recognizing the to-be-detected gas with respect to the target gas.
In addition to the aforementioned steps, the gas sensing method further includes a temperature-humidity sensor which is provided to produce a temperature-humidity signal to correct the visible operand of the to-be-detected gas, such that it can avoid the sensor being affected due to the temperature and humidity to cause errors. As to the distributed result calculated by the microcontroller, the distributed result is classified by the classifier through a linear programming model or a support vector model to obtain the optimal classified result which is served as the gas recognition.
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While the means of specific embodiments in present disclosure has been described by reference drawings, numerous modifications and variations could be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims. The modifications and variations should in a range limited by the specification of the present disclosure.
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104114472 | May 2015 | TW | national |