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    Personal inertial navigation system assisted by mems ground reaction sensor array and interface ASIC for GPS-denied environment
    (IEEE, 2018-11) Guo, Q.; Deng, W. H.; Bebek, Özkan; Cavusoglu, M. C.; Mastrangelo, C. H.; Young, D. J.; Mechanical Engineering; BEBEK, Özkan
    A personal inertial navigation system (PINS) assisted by a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based 13 × 26 ground reaction sensor array (GRSA) and a low-power interface application-specified integrated circuit (ASIC) has been designed and demonstrated for GPS-denied environment. The GRSA operating in a contact mode achieves a sensitivity of approximately 3.7 fF/kPa at each sensor node. An electronic interface system, consisting of a capacitance-to-voltage (C/V) converter followed by a correlated double sampling stage, is designed to convert the GRSA capacitance change to an analog output voltage. The analog output voltage is then digitized by a 12-bit cyclic analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Switch capacitance compensation technique is employed to ensure the ADC performance. The ASIC is fabricated in 0.35-μm CMOS process and dissipates a power of 3 mW. The prototype system incorporates a GRSA, an ASIC, and a commercial nine degreeof-freedom (DOF) inertial measurement unit (IMU) in the heel region of a boot. The GRSA can determine an accurate foot-onground timing based on the pressure profiles detected during walking, thus enabling an accurate position calculation and a precise zero velocity update. Furthermore, a system calibration procedure measures the IMU inherent directional drift and scaling factor errors, and compensates them for the navigation data to achieve a superior performance. The prototype system demonstrates a position accuracy of approximately 5.5 m over a navigation distance of 3100 m. The prototype system also achieves a consistent performance over different field tests with various distances and random paths. System characterization results further indicate a tradeoff between sensor array size and system resolution for a given navigation performance requirement, thus providing a design guideline for future system optimization.