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DARPA

MTO MEMS

SMART DUST
K. Pister, J. Kahn, B. Boser (UCB) S. Morris (MLB)
http://eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust http://spyplanes.com
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Goals

Autonomous sensor node (mote) in 1 mm3 MAV delivery Thousands of motes Many interrogators

Demonstrate useful/complex integration in


1 mm3

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COTS Dust
GOALS: Create a network of sensors Explore system design issues Provide a platform to test Dust components Use off the shelf components

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COTS Dust - RF Motes


Atmel Microprocessor RF Monolithics transceiver 916MHz, ~20m range, 4800 bps 1 week fully active, 2 yr @1%
N W S E

2 Axis Magnetic Sensor 2 Axis Accelerometer Light Intensity Sensor

Humidity Sensor
Pressure Sensor

Temperature Sensor

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COTS Dust - Distributed Algorithms


1, $100 Sensor nodes are easy algorithms?

-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5

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2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5

COTS Dust - Optical Motes

Laser mote 650nm laser pointer 2 day life full duty

CCR mote 4 corner cubes 40% hemisphere


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CCR Interogator
Top View of the Interrogator Filter Polarizing Beamsplitter Quarter-wave Plate

CCD Camera

Lens 0.25% reflectance on each surface

Frequency-Doubled YAG Green Laser

Beam
Expander 45o mirror

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Video Semaphore Decoding

Diverged beam @ 300m Shadow or full sunlight

San Francisco (Coit Tower) to Berkeley (Cory Hall)

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1 Mbps CMOS imaging receiver


Put an asynchronous receiver

at every pixel

Photosensor

CRC Check SIPO Shift Local Bus Driver Register

Signal Processing A/D Conversion Off Chip Bus Driver

0.25 um CMOS in fab

Funded by DARPA/MTO/STAB
Pixel Array

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Micro Mote - First Attempt


300 um

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2D beam scanning
AR coated dome lens laser CMOS ASIC Steering Mirror

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6-bit DAC Driving Scanning Mirror

Normalized beam position

0.8

0.6

Open loop control Insensitive to disturbance Potentially low power

0.4

0.2

10

20 30 Time (seconds)

40

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~8mm3 laser scanner


Two 4-bit mechanical DACs control mirror scan angles.
~6 degrees azimuth, 3 elevation

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Power and Energy

Sources Storage
Solar cells Combustion/Thermopiles Batteries ~1 J/mm3 Capacitors ~1 mJ/mm3 Digital control: nJ/instruction Analog circuitry: nJ/sample Communication: nJ/bit

Usage

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Combustion

Solid rocket propellant integrated igniter thermoelectric generator

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Dust Delivery

Silicon maple seeds Silicon dandelions


8.E-06 6.E-06 4.E-06
Current (A) and Power (W)

SOI Solar Cell Performance

2.E-06 Current Power 0.E+00 -0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7

-2.E-06

-4.E-06

-6.E-06 Voltage (V)

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MAV Delivery
Built by MLB Co.

60 mph 18 min 1 mi comm


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24 Bat
40 mph top speed 30 minute loiter autopilot: pressure sensor, gyros, XLs 2 planes, 1 ground station, in 1 suitcase

spyplanes.com
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Marine LOE 4
3 MAVs participated, 1 flew 7 sorties on station in minutes

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Goal for 01

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Virtual Keyboard

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