Patent ID: 8027855
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: G01J,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of assessing feasibility of a project, the method comprising: receiving a datum associated with a desired process; designing, using one or more computers, an application specific multivariate optical computing system based on the datum, comprising: analyzing the datum; separating the datum into calibration and validation portions thereof; developing one or more models of at least one component of the application specific multivariate optical computing system using the calibration portion of the datum; and testing the one or more models using the validation portion of the datum; wherein the application specific multivariate optical computing system incorporates one or more of the models; and evaluating, using the one or more computers, a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific multivariate optical computing system to the desired process; wherein developing the one or more models comprises: modeling, using the one or more computers and the calibration portion of the datum, two or more of the following elements of the application specific multivariate optical computing system: an illumination source adapted to provide at least a calibration light; a beam splitter adapted to split the calibration light into first and second portions thereof, and further adapted to split a carrier light into first and second portions thereof; a baseline detector to which the respective first portions of the calibration light and the carrier light are adapted to be sent by the beam splitter; an element detector to which the respective second portions of the calibration light and the carrier light are adapted to be sent by the beam splitter; or a multivariate optical element through which the respective second portions of the calibration light and the carrier light are adapted to pass before being received by the element detector.