Gas Detection Intelligence Training System Using Multi-Condition Sensor Arrays

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current gas detection systems face challenges in accurately identifying gas particles in various environmental conditions due to limitations in sensing modalities and conditions, leading to inefficiencies in training prediction models for gas detection.

Innovation Solution

A gas detection intelligence training system that mixes environmental gases with target gases under multiple sensing conditions, using a first and second sensor array to generate measurement data, and trains an ensemble prediction model using a processor to improve detection accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a single dedicated sensor is used for gas detection, then the device complexity is reduced, but the detection accuracy and adaptability to various environmental conditions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesensor configurationVSAvoidgas detection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the gas detection function into multiple sensor arrays (first sensor array and second sensor array), each sensing under different conditions. This segmentation allows the system to achieve high detection accuracy across various environmental conditions while maintaining manageable complexity through modular sensor configuration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces multiple sensing dimensions by employing sensor arrays that operate under different sensing conditions (first sensing condition and second sensing condition). This multi-dimensional approach enables the system to detect target gases more accurately by analyzing gas responses across multiple conditions rather than relying on a single sensor dimension

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If gas detection is performed under multiple sensing conditions with multiple sensor arrays, then the gas detection accuracy and model training quality improve, but the device complexity and data processing requirements worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetarget gas identification accuracyVSAvoidsensing system configuration
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sensing system is designed with multi-functionality, where the first sensor array and second sensor array can detect target gases under different sensing conditions. This universal sensing capability allows a single system to handle various detection scenarios and environmental conditions, improving accuracy without requiring separate dedicated sensors for each condition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates multiple copies of sensing data by measuring the same target gas under different sensing conditions with multiple sensor arrays. These replicated measurements serve as comprehensive training data for the prediction model, enabling the model to learn patterns across different conditions and improve its generalization capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Adaptability or versatility

If environmental gases are mixed with target gases for training, then the adaptability to real-world conditions improves, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring target gases in mixed gas worsens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental condition adaptabilityVSAvoidtarget gas detection in mixed gas
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs feedback mechanisms where sensor arrays measure target gases in mixed environmental gases under various conditions, and the results are used to train and refine prediction models. This feedback loop enables the system to learn how to distinguish target gases from environmental gases, progressively improving detection capability in complex mixtures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes parameter changes by varying sensing conditions (such as temperature, humidity, or sensor operating parameters) while measuring target gases in mixed environmental gases. These parameter variations create distinct measurement signatures that help the prediction model learn to identify target gases despite the presence of environmental gases, improving detection in realistic conditions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The system enhances gas detection accuracy by generating a large amount of training data through mixed gas sensing under various conditions, allowing for precise identification of target gases without relying on single dedicated sensors, thereby improving convenience and precision.

Implementation Method 1

generates a mixing gas based on the collected environmental gas and a target gas

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectGas mixing:

Implementation Method 2

gas particles included in the air chemically stimulate olfactory receptors in his/her nose. Accordingly, olfactory nerves are excited and then deliver a signal to an olfactory center in a temporal lobe of a brain

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectOlfactory receptor stimulation:

Implementation Method 3

An olfactory sensor may measure the electrical resistance of a product resulting from a chemical reaction caused when gas particles are combined with a substance, such as a specific metal

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectChemical reaction:

Data Source

PatentUS11747314B2Gas detection intelligence training system and operating method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.09.05 ELECTRONICS & TELECOMM RES INST
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AI summary

Disclosed are a gas detection intelligence training system and an operating method thereof. The gas detection intelligence training system includes a mixing gas measuring device that collects an environmental gas from a surrounding environment, generates a mixing gas based on the collected environmental gas and a target gas, senses the mixing gas by using a first sensor array and a second sensor array under a first sensing condition and a second sensing condition, respectively, and generates measurement data based on the sensed results of the first sensor array and the second sensor array, and a detection intelligence training device including a processor that generates an ensemble prediction model based on the measurement data.