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Olfaction as a digital sense: implementation of real time video capture & processing system for insect gathering detection stimulated by olfaction in restricted environment

Klotsonis Alkiviadis

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The odor in contrast with vision, hearing and touch, along with the taste belongs to the chemical senses. Out of the five classical senses, the chemical ones, i.e. taste and smell, are not still fully understood by the human. So it has not been possible yet to digitize them in the form we know today the sound and image or even virtual reality in the digital world. The electronic nose, bioengineering systems and the idea of bio-electronic nose recently introduced are various approaches that have been made in the past to digitally utilize and model those senses. In the present thesis, at first we briefly mention these approaches and then develop a bioengineering system as described in the title. Introducing the micro-controller BeagleBone Black, whose function and potentials are extensively described within this thesis, we designed and implemented a system that is able to exploit the exceptional olfactory abilities of insects (e.g. bee, wasp, fly, butterfly). This system may be used by contraband and explosives detection applications up of laboratory equipment for molecular biologists and generally by scientists who approach the modeling of odor with insects or study their behavior.

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