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In realistic environments, the presence of multiple chemicals is expected and therefore, gas discrimination has to be incorporated in the modeling process. The approach presented in this work addresses the task of gas distribution modeling by combining different non selective gas sensors. Gas discrimination is addressed with an open sampling system, composed by an array of metal oxide sensors and a probabilistic algorithm tailored to uncontrolled environments. For each of the identified compounds, the mapping algorithm generates a calibrated gas distribution model using the classification uncertainty and the concentration readings acquired with a photo ionization detector. The meta parameters of the proposed modeling algorithm are automatically learned from the data. The approach was validated with a gas sensitive robot patrolling outdoor and indoor scenarios, where two different chemicals were released simultaneously. The experimental results show that the generated multi compound maps can be used to accurately predict the location of emitting gas sources.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140917331","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,9,17]],"date-time":"2014-09-17T10:53:17Z","timestamp":1410951197000},"page":"17331-17352","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":38,"title":["Combining Non Selective Gas Sensors on a Mobile Robot for Identification and Mapping of Multiple Chemical Compounds"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5061-5474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Victor","family":"Hernandez Bennetts","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, \u00d6rebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, 70182 \u00d6rebro, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Erik","family":"Schaffernicht","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, \u00d6rebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, 70182 \u00d6rebro, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Victor","family":"Pomareda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systema, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028-Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"Departament d'Electr\u00f2nica, Universitat de Barcelona, Mart\u00ed i Franqu\u00e9s 1, 08028-Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0217-9326","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Achim","family":"Lilienthal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, \u00d6rebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, 70182 \u00d6rebro, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2663-2965","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Santiago","family":"Marco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systema, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028-Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"Departament d'Electr\u00f2nica, Universitat de Barcelona, Mart\u00ed i Franqu\u00e9s 1, 08028-Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marco","family":"Trincavelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, \u00d6rebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, 70182 \u00d6rebro, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,9,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"46","article-title":"Achieving adequate control of landfill gas in Europe","volume":"2008","author":"Scharff","year":"2008","journal-title":"Waste Manag. 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