Digital Technologies in Olfaction

Takamichi Nakamoto has studied machine olfaction for more than 30 years. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He worked for Hitachi from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. In 1993, he became an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Visiting Scientist at Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, WA, USA. He organized digital olfaction society conference in 2014. He was a vice president of Sensors and Micromachine Society, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Japan from 2015-2016. He served as TPC co-chair of International Symposium on Olfaction & Electronic Noses in 2019. He is currently a professor at Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

• Part I Background1. Introduction to digital technologies in olfaction2. Physiology of olfactory sensePart II Odor sensing system3. Overview of olfactory sensors4. Quartz Crystal Microbalance sensors5. Odor biosensors6. Active odor sensing systemPart III Cheminformatics in machine olfaction7. Fundamentals of chemometrics techniques8. Concept of odor space9. Odor impression prediction using multi-dimensional data analysis10. Odor impression prediction using natural language processing11. Odor reproduction using odor components12. Odor reproduction based on several divergences13. Analysis for interference removal in odor reproductionPart IV Olfactory displays14. Fundamental techniques of olfactory displays15. Multicomponent olfactory displays16. Wearable olfactory displays17. Digital contents with scents18. VR environment with computational fluid dynamics19. Olfactory displays for teleolfaction20. Olfactory artPart IV Conclusions21. Conclusions22. Future of machine olfaction