Title :
An optical fibre water sensor utilizing signal processing techniques and artificial neural network pattern recognition
Author :
King, Damien ; Flanagan, C. ; Lyons, W.B. ; Lewis, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Limerick Univ., Ireland
Abstract :
An optical fibre water sensor system comprising of a U-bend sensor is presented utilizing optical time domain reflectometry, signal processing techniques and artificial neural network pattern recognition techniques coupled with FFT to recognise various sensing conditions at the sensor.
Keywords :
fast Fourier transforms; fibre optic sensors; multilayer perceptrons; optical losses; optical time-domain reflectometry; water pollution measurement; FFT; U-bend sensor; artificial neural network pattern recognition; optical fibre water sensor; optical time domain reflectometry; sensing conditions; signal processing techniques; Artificial neural networks; Optical computing; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Pattern recognition; Reflectometry; Sensor systems;
Conference_Titel :
Sensors, 2002. Proceedings of IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7454-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSENS.2002.1037321
