Coriolis Vibratory MEMS Gyro Drive Axis Control with Proxy-Based Sliding Mode Controller.

MEMS (micro electrical mechanical systems) gyroscopes are used to measure the angular rate in several applications. The performance of a MEMS gyroscope is dependent on more than one factor, such as mechanical imperfections, environmental condition-dependent parameter variations, and mechanical-thermal noises. These factors should be compensated to improve the performance of the MEMS gyroscope.

Energy-Efficient Cluster-Based Data Collection by a UAV with a Limited-Capacity Battery in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks.

In this work, our motivation focuses on an energy-efficient data collection problem by a mobile sink, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with limited battery capacity, in a robot network divided into several robot clusters. In each cluster, a cluster head (CH) robot allocates tasks to the remaining robots and collects data from them. Our contribution is to minimize the UAV total energy consumption coupled to minimum cost data collection from CH robots by visiting optimally a portion of the CH robots.