In this research we purposed to detect tuberculosis by using electronic nose through breath air. Also in this research, we made use of field programmable gate array (FPGA) myRIO made by National Instrument. We used a set of array to detect TB placed in sensor room. What the subject needs to do is just exhale into the space of the array. | Journal of Automation and Control Engineering Vol. 3, No. 6, December 2015 Identifying Tuberculosis through Exhaled Breath by Using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) myRIO Hendrick, Nadia Alfitri, and Andrizal Electrical Engineering Department, State Polytechnic of Padang, Padang, Indonesia Email: {hendrick, nadiaalfitri, andrizal}@ Abstract—In this research we purposed to detect tuberculosis by using electronic nose through breath air. Also in this research, we made use of field programmable gate array (FPGA) myRIO made by National Instrument. We used a set of array to detect TB placed in sensor room. What the subject needs to do is just exhale into the space of the array. Creating the pattern of TB, this equipment applies Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method so that the form of TB data known as BTA+ will be produced. The result gained was good enough which can be seen through the change of magnitude occurring when processed with FFT. The subject who was involved in this research has got medical checked up before and has been diagnosed BTA+. For the purpose of clarifying, we made use of Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ). Through offline test result, TB is well classified as expected. group the TB and non TB identified data [8]. The identification can also be done through exhaled breath of a patient [9]. This can be carried out by way patient exhales into air bag. The breath air is then flowed from the air bag to sensor space using pump. Generally identification through exhaled breath makes use of little research by making use of patients’ exhaled breath for thepurpose of identifying BTA patient has been carried out. The research being done makes use of hardware and software national instrument. The hardware being used is Field Proggrammable Gate Logic (FPGA) myRIO [11]-[12]. And the software used for programming myRIO is LabVIEW along with other supporting Libraries. An e-nose comprises of sensor, embedded device and PC as
