1. K. Pister, J. Kahn, B. Boser (UCB) S. Morris (MLB)
DARPA
MTO
MEMS
SMART DUST
K. Pister, J. Kahn, B. Boser
(UCB)
S. Morris
(MLB)

2. Goals Autonomous sensor node (mote) in 1 mm3 MAV delivery
Thousands of motes
Many interrogators
Demonstrate useful/complex integration in 1 mm3

3. COTS Dust GOALS: Create a network of sensors
Explore system design issues
Provide a platform to test Dust components
Use off the shelf components

4. COTS Dust - RF Motes Atmel Microprocessor RF Monolithics transceiver
916MHz, ~20m range, 4800 bps
1 week fully active, 2 N S E W
2 Axis Magnetic Sensor
2 Axis Accelerometer
Light Intensity Sensor
Humidity Sensor
Pressure Sensor
Temperature Sensor

5. COTS Dust - Optical Motes
CCR mote
4 corner cubes
40% hemisphere
Laser mote
650nm laser pointer
2 day life full duty

6. Video Semaphore Decoding
Diverged 5.2 km
In shadow in evening sun
Diverged 300m
Shadow or full sunlight

7. ’01 Goal

8. Micro Mote - First Attempt

9. 2D beam scanning
laser
lens
CMOS ASIC
Steering Mirror
AR coated dome

10. Delivery by MAV Built by Steve Morris, MLB Co. 60 mph 18 minutes
1 mile comm.

11. Micro Flying Insect ONR MURI/ DARPA funded year 1 of 5 year project
Dickinson, Fearing (PI), Liepmann, Majumdar, Pister, Sands, Sastry
Heavily leveraged on Smart Dust

12. Conclusion Wireless sensor networks Optical comm Applications COTS!
MEMS-enabled
Optical comm
20 km from a cubic inch
size limits: ~1mm3
Applications
stockpile monitoring: from small arms to W88
transparent battlefield: from desert to MOUT
chem/bio
virtual keyboard