Andrea Buffoli, a student in the Ph.D. program in Information Technology at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, has won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE INERTIAL conference for the second time in a row.
The award was given to him for the paper ‘Upgrading a Gyroscope from a Lab-Based Setup into a Pre-Industrial Demo: Challenges and Lessons Learned’, presented during the 11th edition of the conference, held in Hiroshima, Japan, March 25-28, 2024.
The work, written with Philippe Robert (CEA-Leti) and Giacomo Langfelder (Politecnico di Milano), reports advancements in MEMS gyroscopes based on NEMS resistive detection, towards a prototype demonstration in operational environment. The developed system relies on two chips (the microelectromechanical system itself and a low-noise front-end integrated circuit), off-the-shelf analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and, for the first time on such gyroscopes, on-board demodulation, and signal processing with no need for external instrumentation. These tasks are performed with a FPGA, also implementing tracking of the drive frequency.