New design for accelerometers, gyroscopes could aid military and gaming industries.

A new design for a device that measures an object’s position and speed could improve positional accuracy for the video gaming and virtual-reality industries, as well as for manufacturers of high-end handheld personal navigators and industrial and medical robots.

Milli Sensor Systems and Actuators (MSSA; West Newton, MA), the designer of the device, called an inertial measuring unit (IMU) sensor chip, received an SBIR Phase II contract from MDA in 2006 to help the agency integrate various components in a missile’s guidance system. Accelerometers and gyroscopes that make up the IMU sensor chip measure a...read more