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Sensors 2006, 6, 1537-1554 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2006 by MDPI /sensors Full Paper Tracking Dynamic Source Direction with a Novel Stationary Electronic Nose System Jie Cai 1,* and David C. Levy 2,* Building J03, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia * Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mails: jcai@.au (Jie Cai), dlevy@.au (David C. Levy) Received: 15 September 2006 / Accepted: 6 November 2006 / Published: 8 November 2006 Abstract: Arrays of chemical sensors, usually called electronic noses (ENose), are widely used in industry for classifying and identifying odours. They may also be used to locate the position and detect the direction of an emission source. Usually this task is performed by an ENose cooperating with a mobile vehicle, but when a source is instantaneous, or the surrounding terrain is hard for vehicles to traverse, an alternative approach is needed. Thus a three-step method for a stationary ENose with a novel structure to detect the direction of a dynamic source is presented in this paper. The method uses the ratio of measured concentration from different sensors (Cn /C1 where n=2, 4) as a discriminator. In addition, this method could easily be adapted to robotics as an optimized algorithm for path tracking to a source location. The paper presents the results of a simulation of the method. Keywords: Electronic nose, Direction detection, Dynamic source tracking, Nature wind situation 1. Introduction Today quality control with electronic noses is widely used in the food and beverage industry. The classification and identification of chemical emissions or aromas using ENoses is also applied in pollution control and fire detection [1-8]. The techniques to support those applications, such as feature extraction and pattern recognition, are very well developed [9-15]. Based on the