Improving Accelerometers Performance Using Smart Sensing Techniques

Author

Pereira, J. M Dias ; Banha, Carlos ; Postolache, Octavian ; Girao, Pedro

Author_Institution

ESTSetubal, Setubal

fYear

2006

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

654

Lastpage

657

Abstract

This paper presents a solution to improve the performance of a micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) accelerometer exploring oversampling and sensor fusion techniques. The proposed solution seems to be adequate for any measurement application that requires sensor fusion of two quantities, acceleration and temperature. The measurement system includes auto-calibration (AC) routines and software modules (SM) to evaluate noise level amplitude for self-dithering data processing and to improve the measurement reliability using self-testing techniques.

Keywords

accelerometers; intelligent sensors; microsensors; sensor fusion; accelerometers; auto-calibration routines; measurement reliability; measurement system; microelectro-mechanical system; self-dithering data processing; self-testing techniques; sensor fusion techniques; smart sensing techniques; software modules; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Application software; Micromechanical devices; Noise measurement; Samarium; Sensor fusion; Software measurement; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensors, 2006. 5th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Daegu

ISSN

1930-0395

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0375-8

Electronic_ISBN

1930-0395

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355553

Filename

4178705