Exploiting evolution for an adaptive drift-robust classifier in chemical sensing

  • Authors:
  • Stefano Di Carlo;Matteo Falasconi;Ernesto Sánchez;Alberto Scionti;Giovanni Squillero;Alberto Tonda

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy;Università di Brescia S SENSOR CNR-INFM, Brescia, Italy;Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy;Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy;Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy;Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • EvoApplicatons'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Gas chemical sensors are strongly affected by drift, i.e., changes in sensors’ response with time, that may turn statistical models commonly used for classification completely useless after a period of time. This paper presents a new classifier that embeds an adaptive stage able to reduce drift effects. The proposed system exploits a state-of-the-art evolutionary strategy to iteratively tweak the coefficients of a linear transformation able to transparently transform raw measures in order to mitigate the negative effects of the drift. The system operates continuously. The optimal correction strategy is learnt without a-priori models or other hypothesis on the behavior of physical-chemical sensors. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the approach on a real problem.