Wireless Microsystems for Augmented Machine and Human Intelligence

用于增强机器和人类智能的无线微系统

• 批准号: RGPIN-2022-04228
• 负责人: Nabki, Frederic
• 金额: $ 4.66万
• 依托单位: École de technologie supérieure
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754021
• 关键词: Wireless; Microsystems; Augmented; Machine; Human

Disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, the internet of things and augmented reality are transforming our lives. A joining with microsystems is inevitable to fully realize their potential. Microsystems are millimeter-scale systems that include microelectronics for processing or communication and transducers for sensing and actuation. They can offer the highly integrated functionalities required to create sensor nodes to densely feed the ever-increasing appetite of these technologies for data, and the compactness they require to provide feedback to users or machines (e.g., with a wearable). Accordingly, microsystems can augment machine and human intelligence by enabling the capabilities for these technologies to thrive. The challenges lie not only in miniaturization, but also in low-power operation and wireless connectivity for ubiquitous deployment and maximal enablement. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are a natural choice to fulfil the sensing and actuation functionalities in microsystems, and integrated circuits (IC) are well-suited to create their electronics. Still, IC and MEMS remain hard to integrate due to fabrication process incompatibilities, design intricacies and co-optimization challenges. Furthermore, energy efficiency complicates integration, as microsystems need to operate in wireless wearables and nodes with very stringent energy constraints, making the energy draw of these functionalities currently too prohibitive. Their efficiency can be increased by reducing their components' power consumption and harvesting energy. The long term objective is to create a new class of energy-efficient microsystems that will integrate in a unique way wireless connectivity, energy harvesting, transducers and their interfaces into a miniature form-factor. We will focus on 3 short term objectives to advance toward the LTO: 1) Elaborate above-IC-compatible MEMS transducers that support multi-sensing functions and leverage resonant operation along with carbon materials to enhance performance. 2) Design energy-efficient wireless transceivers and interface circuits for integration with MEMS transducers. 3) Create mechanical energy harvesters to improve the efficiency of microsystems by using low-temperature cofired ceramics to increase energy generation. The outcome will be a new integration platform enabling microsystems that can be used in a variety of environments and applications to augment human and machine intelligence. This will yield advances in the fields of MEMS, energy harvesting, sensing, low-power ICs and integration, which represent significant contributions to research in Canada. These novel devices will have an overarching applicability and impact sectors such as transportation, healthcare, environment and industrial processes, strengthening Canada's competitiveness. The 11 HQP trained (2 BEng, 4 MASc, 5 PhD) will gain valuable and marketable advanced manufacturing and design skills for the Canadian economy.

诸如人工智能，物联网和增强现实之类的破坏性技术正在改变我们的生活。与微系统的加入是不可避免的，以充分发挥其潜力。微型系统是毫米级系统，其中包括用于处理或通信的微电子，以及用于感测和驱动的换能器。他们可以提供创建传感器节点所需的高度集成功能，以密集地喂养这些技术对数据的食欲不断增加，以及它们为用户或机器提供反馈所需的紧凑性（例如，具有可穿戴设备）。因此，微型系统可以通过使这些技术蓬勃发展的能力来增强机器和人类智能。这些挑战不仅在于微型化，还在于低功率操作和无线连接性，用于无处不在的部署和最大启用。微电机电系统（MEMS）是实现微系统中传感和驱动功能的自然选择，并且集成电路（IC）非常适合创建其电子设备。尽管如此，由于制造过程不兼容，设计复杂性和合作挑战挑战，IC和MEM仍然很难集成。此外，能源效率使整合变得复杂，因为微型系统需要在无线可穿戴设备和节点中运行，并具有非常严格的能量限制，这使得当前的这些功能的能量吸收过于效率。可以通过减少组件的功耗和收获能量来提高其效率。 长期目标是创建一类新的节能微型系统，该系统将以独特的无线连接性，能量收获，换能器及其接口为独特的方式集成到微型形式因子中。我们将重点关注3个短期目标，以迈向LTO：1）详细介绍了支持多感应函数并利用谐振运算以及碳材料以及增强性能的上方兼容的MEMS传感器。 2）设计节能无线收发器和接口电路，以与MEMS传感器集成。 3）创建机械能量收割机来通过使用低温辅助陶瓷来增加能量产生，以提高微型系统的效率。结果将是一个新的集成平台，可实现微型系统，可用于各种环境和应用程序来增强人类和机器智能。这将在MEMS，能源收集，传感，低功率IC和整合领域的领域取得进步，这代表了加拿大研究的重要贡献。这些新颖的设备将具有总体适用性和影响部门，例如运输，医疗保健，环境和工业流程，从而增强了加拿大的竞争力。经过11个HQP培训（2个Beng，4 MASC，5博士学位）将为加拿大经济获得有价值且可销售的高级制造和设计技能。