The definition of Smartongue
Also known as gustatory sensor or taste fingerprint analyzer ,it is a qualitative and quantitative analysis of modern instrumentation major constituted by the interaction sensitive sensor display,signal acquisition circuit and the data processing method with good Pattern Recognition。(The definition comes from Yu.Vlasov,et al,/ Pure and Applied Chemistry 77,1965-1983)
Sensor display
Non-specific sensors
Has some specificity , and interact with a sensor excitation signal acquisition system
Related to the design of the sensor display
Associated with the nature of the object under test
Multivariate statistics system
The bureau of inspection on differences between object overall qualities(PCA)
The identification on origin authenticity protection products and brand products(SIMCA、PLS-DA)
Product quality grading(DFA)
Samples sensory attributes and physical and chemical indicators of rapid response (PLS)
Evaluation of product shelf life (PCA, PLS)
Rapid:Without any pre-treatment,sample can be tested directly at present.Meanwhile ,we can get the desired result in 1~3 minutes.The machine which has a high sensitivity and vast information(several orders of magnitude more than other electronic tongue’s original information) can be cleaned automatically.The operation is simple and reliable which has provided a realistic possibility to the intelligent processing.
Stable:A special screening of inert precious metal sensor array according to the test objects with a high performance stability and repeatability is the most stable commodity electronic tongue system.The system can be used for many years without replacement.
Extensive:Corrosive samples or fats and oils samples can be detected easily.Such as liquor , edible oil and so on can be directly detected.
Elastic:Smart tongue is a kind of universal tongue broad spectrum of intelligence analysis instruments, with maximum flexibility and scalability. It can be combined with the specific needs of users and sample data model libraries to define and expand its function and change into dedicated electronic tongue models for different purposes and different environments.
Autonomous:Smart tongue entirely based on independent intellectual property rights has originality in the principles and technique,including the application software which is completely designed to the Chinese people.The friendly background and targeted operation is suitable for the Chinese people’s thinking concepts and operating practices.The whole system performances cost-effective and is easy to maintenance .
Flavor substances in food are classified as five basic tastes like sour,sweet , bitter, salty, fresh.By identifying the sensor and processing computer software ,namely through the concept of " WAN selective " to identify,evaluate the taste ,and then you can view and count the taste of the tongue.
As follows: for different taste substances , we can get a very clear distinction and identification about five basic tastesour, sweet , bitter, salty, fresh .For sour ,sweet , salty ,bitter ,fresh ,this five basic tastes , their flavor substances are different , so intellectual tongue can make a distinction and identification of the components of a particular taste .
Sour:For sour,the different substances in the human sense of taste is sour taste ,but there are many kinds of sour taste.Human perception is perceived by different acids ,so their feeling are not the same.However , Smartongue has more sensetive feeling about different acid , even various mixing sour taste.
Sweet : In the five basic taste , the sweet is the most difficult to distinguish .However,smarttongue can also make very clear distinction to this taste which people are the easiest to accept.
Bitter : identification of different bitter substances.
Salty : identification ofdifferent salty substances
Fresh : identification of substances of different flavor
Taste substance concentration can be distinguished by the way that converting the electrical signals given by the senser into taste quality or taste intensity by the Weber-Fechner 's law. As shown in the figure, the output value and organoleptic score of the sensor use log1.2that 20% of the concentration difference as a unit of measurement to converse output value among each sensor .As shown , 12.5 units means that the sample concentration of 10 times as the reference sample .In this way, 25 units increased to 100 times . By simple conversion like this , visualized flavor profile can be formed . Flavor distribution chart of FIG axis of ordinates represents the taste , smell coordinate represents the intensity of stimulation .
1.Distinguish between various species of liquor:
With the same kind of grape varieties and the different brand and origin commodities wine as a detection target ,it can very clearly distinguish between different brands of wine ,which can be used to play on the distinction of various of wine , quality control.And the identification of true and false good effect.
2.The distinction of the same origin:
To Changyu and Chia Louis produced in Yantai , and the Great Wall and the Maotai village from the changli ,the principal component score pointsof the wine samples is relatively close, which indcate that the electronic tongue not only distinguish wine samples but alsoits brand.