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ArticleMicromachines2021

Exploiting Pull-In/Pull-Out Hysteresis in Electrostatic MEMS Sensor Networks to Realize a Novel Sensing Continuous-Time Recurrent Neural Network.

Mohammad H Hasan, Amin Abbasalipour, Hamed Nikfarjam, Siavash Pourkamali, Muhammad Emad-Ud-Din, Roozbeh Jafari, Fadi Alsaleem

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Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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7 authors.

Mohammad H HasanDepartment of Earth and Space Sciences, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA 31909, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5038-2882
Amin AbbasalipourDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75080, USA.
Hamed NikfarjamDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75080, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8852-2705
Siavash PourkamaliDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75080, USA.
Muhammad Emad-Ud-DinDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Roozbeh JafariDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Fadi AlsaleemDurham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68182, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8134-4080

Funding

National Science Foundation 1935641
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to provide a novel computing approach that can be used to reduce the power consumption, size, and cost of wearable electronics. To achieve this goal, the use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors for simultaneous sensing and computing is introduced. Specifically, by enabling sensing and computing locally at the MEMS sensor node and utilizing the usually unwanted pull in/out hysteresis, we may eliminate the need for cloud computing and reduce the use of analog-to-digital converters, sampling circuits, and digital processors. As a proof of concept, we show that a simulation model of a network of three commercially available MEMS accelerometers can classify a train of square and triangular acceleration signals inherently using pull-in and release hysteresis. Furthermore, we develop and fabricate a network with finger arrays of parallel plate actuators to facilitate coupling between MEMS devices in the network using actuating assemblies and biasing assemblies, thus bypassing the previously reported coupling challenge in MEMS neural networks.

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CTRNNMEMSneuromorphic computingSensor Network

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PMID33807986
PMCPMC8000076

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