Integration of Smart Micro-Optical Sensors Technology for the Mechatronics Engineering in Robotics and Automation Systems

The micro-optical sensors are also known as the morphology dependent resonators (MDR). The principles of the measurement for these sensors are basically depending on changing the morphology for these sensing elements for any minute change on the surrounding medium. The quality factor (Q-factor) for these sensors reported to be ~108 which is classified as one of the highest values; and based on that it makes these devices to be one of the most ultra-sensitive sensors. These sensors are suitable to measure different phenomena in a very high resolutions up to the pico-scale similar to measuring the angular velocity on the joints used in robotics, the brain activity which is known by the action potential signals for the prosthesis devices. As the typical Mechatronics systems are keen to implement a typical closed-loop feedback control for any automation systems. So, using such extremely sensitive sensors could enrich the close-loop feedback algorithms in a very significant way. The importance of using these micro-optical sensors and integrated with the typical Mechatronics systems will be presented to introduce a new technology based on the opto-mecharonics devices. The purpose of this research in this filed is to integrate some of the optical components to the typical micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) to build a new devices that will be very fast enough to deal with the control feedback and automation signals because it depends on speed of light. This research will focus into the process of fabrication, and signal processing for these new smart sensors. Also, the integration with several applications in mechatronics and robotics that used at any automated process will be presented during this research from not only the analytical but also the experimental and implementation point of views

 

Author(s): Amir R. Ali

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