25–26 Jun 2026
''Vasil Levski'' National Military University
Europe/Sofia timezone

AI-ENABLED MULTI-SENSOR FUSION FOR FIELD DETECTION OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS: A SYSTEM-ORIENTED EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

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''Vasil Levski'' National Military University

''Vasil Levski'' National Military University

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Paper – Oral Presentation Defense and Security Technology

Speakers

Iliyan Hutov (defence technologies)Prof. Ivan Ivanov (communication and information)

Description

This paper presents a system-oriented experimental study on AI-enabled multi-sensor fusion for field detection of chemical warfare agents. The proposed framework integrates ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), portable Raman spectroscopy, and electrochemical sensing through feature-level fusion and interpretable machine learning. Its contribution is twofold: first, it formulates a practical fusion architecture for portable CBRN detection systems; second, it demonstrates a reproducible Python-based evaluation workflow on a realistic synthetic dataset derived from literature-reported response patterns for nerve-agent simulants, blister-agent simulants, choking-agent surrogates, and benign interferents. The fused model outperforms the individual sensing modalities, achieving 99.2% accuracy and a weighted F1-score of 0.992, compared with 94.7% for Raman-only, 92.8% for electrochemical-only, and 81.4% for IMS-only. The results indicate that combining complementary sensing physics with data-driven decision support improves discrimination robustness and reduces false alarms under environmental variability. The study is positioned as a reproducible intermediate step toward laboratory validation and future deployment-oriented CBRN sensing systems.

Author

Iliyan Hutov (defence technologies)

Co-authors

Prof. Hristo Hristov (CBRNe) Prof. Ivan Ivanov (communication and information)

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