Intelligent fiber optic sensor for solution concentration examination

Michal Borecki; Jerzy Kruszewski

doi:10.1117/12.517053

22 September 2003 Intelligent fiber optic sensor for solution concentration examination

Michal Borecki, Jerzy Kruszewski

Proceedings Volume 5124, Optoelectronic and Electronic Sensors V; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.517053
Event: Optoelectronic and Electronic Sensors V, 2002, Rzeszow, Poland

Abstract

This paper presents the working principles of intelligent fiber-optic intensity sensor used for solution concentration examination. The sensor head is the ending of the large core polymer optical fiber. The head works on the reflection intensity basis. The reflected signal level depends on Fresnel reflection and reflection on suspended matter when the head is submersed in solution. The sensor head is mounted on a lift. For detection purposes the signal includes head submerging, submersion, emerging and emergence is measured. This way the viscosity turbidity and refraction coefficient has an effect on measured signal. The signal forthcoming from head is processed electrically in opto-electronic interface. Then it is feed to neural network. The novelty of presented sensor is implementation of neural network that works in generalization mode. The sensor resolution depends on opto-electronic signal conversion precision and neural network learning accuracy. Therefore, the number and quality of points used for learning process is very important. The example sensor application for examination of liquid soap concentration in water is presented in the paper.

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Michal Borecki and Jerzy Kruszewski "Intelligent fiber optic sensor for solution concentration examination", Proc. SPIE 5124, Optoelectronic and Electronic Sensors V, (22 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.517053

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