A portable, low-cost system for optical explosive detection based on a CMOS camera

Ross Gillanders; Ifor David William Samuel; Graham Alexander Turnbull; Iain Angus Campbell

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A portable, low-cost system for optical explosive detection based on a CMOS camera

Ross Gillanders, Ifor David William Samuel, Graham Alexander Turnbull, Iain Angus Campbell

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Humanitarian demining requires a variety of methods and instrumentation for effective mine clearance, since a wide range of materials are used in mine manufacturing. However, landmines release vapours over time that can be detected, for example, by sniffer dogs. Optical sensor systems are especially suited to this application due to the potential for lightweight, portable, low-cost systems that nevertheless have fast response times and ppb-level sensitivity to explosive vapours. In this paper we present a system for detection based on a low-cost Raspberry Pi platform with an integrated CMOS camera. The conjugated polymers Super Yellow and Polyfluorene are excited by an LED, and the quenching effect by DNB vapour is monitored by the camera to indicate the presence of explosives. The system shows potential as a user friendly, lightweight platform for explosive vapour sensing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS
Editors	Paulo A. Ribeiro, Maria Raposo
Publisher	SciTePress
Pages	132-136
Number of pages	5
Volume	4
ISBN (Print)	9789897581748
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0005739801300134
Publication status	Published - 29 Feb 2016
Event	Photoptics 2016 - Rome, Italy Duration: 27 Feb 2016 → 29 Jun 2016

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Conference	Photoptics 2016
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	27/02/16 → 29/06/16

Keywords

Explosives
Conjugated Polymer
Organic Semiconductors
Raspberry Pi
Imaging

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Gillanders, R., Samuel, I. D. W., Turnbull, G. A., & Campbell, I. A. (2016). A portable, low-cost system for optical explosive detection based on a CMOS camera. In P. A. Ribeiro, & M. Raposo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS (Vol. 4, pp. 132-136). Article 58 SciTePress. https://doi.org/10.5220/0005739801300134

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Gillanders, R , Samuel, IDW , Turnbull, GA & Campbell, IA 2016, A portable, low-cost system for optical explosive detection based on a CMOS camera. in PA Ribeiro & M Raposo (eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS. vol. 4, 58, SciTePress, pp. 132-136, Photoptics 2016, Rome, Italy, 27/02/16. https://doi.org/10.5220/0005739801300134

A portable, low-cost system for optical explosive detection based on a CMOS camera. / Gillanders, Ross ; Samuel, Ifor David William ; Turnbull, Graham Alexander et al.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS. ed. / Paulo A. Ribeiro; Maria Raposo. Vol. 4 SciTePress, 2016. p. 132-136 58.

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