A novel method for wine analysis based on sensor fusion technique

A novel method for wine analysis based on sensor fusion technique is propos ed in this paper. Our novel method is a vial of realizing an engineering mo del of the sensing and recognizing systems of humans that combines all feat ures of artificial olfactory and artificial taste, i.e. 'electronic nose' a nd 'electronic tongue' for the classification of wine. Moreover, we improve d a kind of fuzzy neural network for sensor information fusing. The results show that the above methods have the characteristics of better accuracy, c onvenience and efficiency. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserv ed.