Intelligent plasma monitoring systems based on optical methods and chromatic modulation

Abstract

In this work an intelligent optical monitoring system is presented the operating principle of which is based on natural biological and optical systems. The monitoring system perceives its environment thought optical sensors for goal directed actions even in dynamic changing environments and exhibits unsupervised and autonomous operation. Chromatic modulation methods are applied extensively to provide information compression in a form suitable for conventional image processing techniques. Chromaticity changes in a number of chromatic parameters are related to changes in physical plasma characteristics and properties (e.g. gas composition). An extensive range of parameters can be monitored with the same system so leading to the realization of a unified intelligent measurement philosophy. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010.