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Biomimetic Sniffing Improves the Detection Performance of a 3D Printed Nose of a Dog and a Commercial Trace Vapor Detector

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dc.contributor Lincoln Laboratory
dc.contributor Kunz, Roderick R
dc.contributor Mendum, Thomas H.e.
dc.contributor Ong, Ta-Hsuan
dc.contributor Geurtsen, Geoffrey P.
dc.creator Staymates, Matthew E.
dc.creator MacCrehan, William A.
dc.creator Staymates, Jessica L.
dc.creator Gillen, Greg J.
dc.creator Craven, Brent A.
dc.creator Kunz, Roderick R
dc.creator Mendum, Thomas H.e.
dc.creator Ong, Ta-Hsuan
dc.creator Geurtsen, Geoffrey P.
dc.date 2017-04-27T14:30:03Z
dc.date 2017-04-27T14:30:03Z
dc.date 2016-12
dc.date 2016-08
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:04:41Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:04:41Z
dc.identifier 2045-2322
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108446
dc.identifier Staymates, Matthew E. et al. “Biomimetic Sniffing Improves the Detection Performance of a 3D Printed Nose of a Dog and a Commercial Trace Vapor Detector.” Scientific Reports 6.1 (2016): n. pag.
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278659
dc.description Unlike current chemical trace detection technology, dogs actively sniff to acquire an odor sample. Flow visualization experiments with an anatomically-similar 3D printed dog’s nose revealed the external aerodynamics during canine sniffing, where ventral-laterally expired air jets entrain odorant-laden air toward the nose, thereby extending the “aerodynamic reach” for inspiration of otherwise inaccessible odors. Chemical sampling and detection experiments quantified two modes of operation with the artificial nose-active sniffing and continuous inspiration-and demonstrated an increase in odorant detection by a factor of up to 18 for active sniffing. A 16-fold improvement in detection was demonstrated with a commercially-available explosives detector by applying this bio-inspired design principle and making the device “sniff” like a dog. These lessons learned from the dog may benefit the next-generation of vapor samplers for explosives, narcotics, pathogens, or even cancer, and could inform future bio-inspired designs for optimized sampling of odor plumes.
dc.description United States. Department of Homeland Security. Advanced Research Projects Agency (Interagency Agreement HSHQPM-13-X-00107)
dc.description United States. Air Force (Contract FA8721-05-C-0002)
dc.description United States. Air Force (Contract FA8702-15-D-0001)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Nature Publishing Group
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep36876
dc.relation Scientific Reports
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source Nature
dc.title Biomimetic Sniffing Improves the Detection Performance of a 3D Printed Nose of a Dog and a Commercial Trace Vapor Detector
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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