Electronic Tongue

The electronic tongue is an analytical instrument comprising an array of nonspecific, low-selective, chemical sensors with high stability and cross-sensitivity to different species in solution and an appropriate method of PARC and/or multivariate calibration for data processing.

Mimicking human taste is advantageous in situations when human expert panels cannot or should not be applied, because of:

process conditions—as in case of automatic process control especially on an industrial scale;

poisonous/extreme condition samples—e.g., repetitive tasting of drugs and pharmaceuticals;

economic reasons, defined in terms of time or financial expenses See more