Dinesh, M and Ananthasuresh, GK (2008) Displacement Amplifying Compliant Mechanisms for Two-axis High-resolution Monolithic Inertial Sensors. In: CD-ROM proceedings of the ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Aug. 3-6, 2008, New York City, NY, USA, Aug. 3-6, 2008, New York City, NY.
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Novel designs for two-axis, high-resolution, monolithic inertial sensors are presented in this paper. Monolithic, i.e., joint-less single-piece compliant designs are already common in micromachined inertial sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. Here, compliant mechanisms are used not only to achieve de-coupling between motions along two orthogonal axes but also to amplify the displacements of the proof-mass. Sensitivity and resolution capabilities are enhanced because the amplified motion is used for sensing the measurand. A particular symmetric arrangement of displacement-amplifying compliant mechanisms (DaCMs) leads to de-coupled and amplified motion. An existing DaCM and a new topology-optimized DaCM are presented as a building block in the new arrangement. A spring-mass-lever model is presented as a lumped abstraction of the new arrangement. This model is useful for arriving at the optimal parameters of the DaCM and for performing system-level simulation. The new designs improved the performance by a factor of two or more.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Publisher: | ASME |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to ASME. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2011 09:32 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2011 09:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/41026 |
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