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Accession Number:
ADA582586
Title:
Haltere Mechanics and Mechanical Logic for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Scale Bio-inspired Navigation Sensors
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Corporate Author:
ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD
Report Date:
2012-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
38.0
Abstract:
Small autonomous aerial systems require the ability to detect roll, pitch, and yaw to enable stable flight. Existing inertial measurement units IMUs are incapable of accurately measuring roll-pitch-yaw within the size, weight, and power requirements of small autonomous systems. To overcome this, we have designed novel IMUs based on the biological haltere system in a microelectromechanical system MEMS. MEMS haltere sensors were successfully simulated, designed, and fabricated with a control scheme that enables simple, straightforward decoupling of the signals. Passive mechanical logic was designed to facilitate the decoupling of the forces acting on the sensor. The control scheme was developed that efficiently and accurately decouples the three component parts from the haltere sensors. Individual, coupled, and arrayed halteres were fabricated. A series of static electrical tests and dynamic device tests were conducted, in addition to in-situ bend tests, to validate the simulation results, and these, taken as a whole, indicate that the MEMS haltere sensors will be inherently sensitive to the Coriolis forces caused by changes in angular rate. The successful fabrication of a micro-angular rate sensor represents a substantial breakthrough and is an enabling technology for a number of Army applications, including micro air vehicles MAVs.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
