MAS836 - Sensor Systems for Interactive Environments

Adjunct Reading Material for Inertial Sensing Lecture

Application Notes for the MSI ACH-04-08-05 3-axis piezoelectric accelerometer <pdf>

Datasheet for the ADXL202 series of accelerometers from Analog Devices <pdf>

Application Notes describing how the MEMSIC convection accelerometer works <pdf>

Article about the MEMSIC accelerometer from Sensors Mag <pdf>

Beautiful photo of the MEMSIC chip layout <jpg>

PDF of ML paper describing techniques for parsing activity with accelerometers <pdf>

Rehmi Post's thesis on a particle trap inertial sensor <pdf>

Analog Devices article on design of the ADXL202 accelerometer <pdf>

Analog Devices article on design of the ADXR series MEMS gyros <pdf>

Another article about semiconductor pressure sensors from Sensors Mag <pdf>

Article on electrolytic (fluid) tilt sensors from Sensors Mag <pdf>

Overview article on MEMS inertial sensing technology by John Bernstein (ex-Draper) <pdf>

An article overviewing inertial technologies from practioniters at Draper Lab <pdf>.

An article on pedestrian navigation that exploits a wearable IMU <pdf>

An article about military tracking using IMUs and other sensors <pdf>

An article forecasting and summarizing MEMS inertial performance <pdf>