With the rapid development of Micro-electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) fabrication technologies, many microelectrodes with various structures and functions have been designed and fabricated for applications in biomedical research, diagnosis and treatment through electrical stimulation and electrophysiological signal recording. The flexible MEMS microelectrodes exhibit excellent characteristics i...

Mechanical stimulation has been imposed on living cells using several approaches. Most early investigations were conducted groups of cells, utilizing techniques such as substrate deformation and flow-induced shear. To investigate the properties individually, many conventional utilized, AFM, optical traps/optical tweezers, magnetic beads, micropipette aspiration. In specific mechanical interroga...

Monitoring biological reactions using the mechanical response of macromolecules is an alternative approach to immunoassays for providing real-time information about the underlying molecular mechanisms. Although force spectroscopy techniques, e.g. AFM and optical tweezers, perform precise molecular measurements at the single molecule level, sophisticated operation prevent their intensive use for...

Communication networks and strategies for cooperative UAV swarms have received significant attention. The main problem in controlling autonomous vehicles needs some knowledge of its altitude angles. These angles can be measured in different ways, for instance, using a conventional inertial navigation system. A novel approach to deal these problems by modern Micro electro mechanical systems (MEM...

In order to improve the accuracy and reliability of micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) navigation systems, an orthogonal rotation method-based nine-gyro redundant MEMS configuration is presented. By analyzing the accuracy and reliability characteristics of an inertial navigation system (INS), criteria for redundant configuration design are introduced. Then the orthogonal rotation configura...

The interest in developing efficient nano and pico-satellites has grown the last 20 years. Secondary propulsion systems capable of serving specific maneuvers are an essential part these small satellites. In particular, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Vaporizing Liquid Microthrusters (VLM), using water as a propellant, represent today smart choice terms simplicity cost. this paper, we fi...

The design and implementation of a monolithic micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS)-based gas sensor virtual component is described. The gas sensor virtual component encloses the sensor and its associated analog circuitry into a digital shell so that all interface connections to the virtual component are digital. The system architecture supports an array of gas sensor elements. System respons...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained worldwide attention in recent years, particularly with the proliferation in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology which has facilitated the development of smart sensors (Akyildiz et al., 2006; Akyildiz et al., 2007; Yick et al., 2008). Target tracking in WSNs is an important problem with a large spectrum of applications (Akyildiz et al., ...

With the help of recent technological advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and wireless communications, low-cost, low-power, and multifunctional wireless sensing devices have been developed. When these devices are deployed over a wide geographical region, they can collect information about the environment and efficiently collaborate to process such information by forming a distri...

Recent advancements in micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and wireless communications have made possible the developments of low cost sensor networks. Applications of sensor networks are broad from domestic applications to battlefield. Due to sensors nature of limited energy, limited memory and very small computing power there are significant challenges in its design, programming and simul...