Cost and space constraints are currently driving manufacturers of Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) and location based services to investigate and develop next generation of low cost and small size navigation systems to meet the fast growing mobile mapping and location services market demands. Advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology have shown promising light towards the devel...

Power supply for electronics is one of the more recent application areas which has been explored for MEMS devices and techniques. Within this field, the most actively researched application has been MEMS power sources, particularly to replace batteries for portable electronic devices such as wireless sensor nodes. In addition, there are possibilities for MEMS devices in circuit protection, and ...

This paper proposes an emergency locking unit (ELU) for a seat belt retractor which is mounted on the back frame of a vehicle seat. The proposed unit uses a recliner sensor based on a MEMS acceleration sensor and solenoid mechanism. The seat has an upper frame supported to tilt on a lower frame. The retractor in belt in seat (BIS) system is supported by the upper frame. The proposed recliner se...

The microelectronic department at LIRMM has developed, in the past few years, various types of MEMS sensors. The particularity of our group is to design MEMS that can be integrated either in a System on Chip (SoC) or in a System in Package (SiP) approaches. Therefore, the purpose of this demonstration is to show the feasibility of a silicon attitude sensor using 2 MEMS magnetometers, 2 MEMS the...