MEMS sensor technology turned into a racing track safety assistant

Throughout the world today, many technologies that are important to safety and economic prosperity have occupied an important position in sensor information technology. Sensors can be more miniaturized by means of micro-nano processing methods, and MEMS micro-sensor technology is compared to traditional sensors. It not only reduces the size of the sensor, but also improves its performance. It has advantages in terms of sensitivity, dynamic characteristics, and signal-to-noise ratio.

A few days ago, on the race track of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the United States, MEMS sensor technology took the lead on the race track to help ensure the safety of the Indianapolis 500-mile race drivers. By combining this emerging MEMS acceleration sensor technology in a 200mph race car, Indy500 became one of the safest races in the history of U.S. racing.

Combined with the new security features developed by the IndyCar engineering team, each racer's headset also includes three high-g acceleration sensors developed by ADI to detect the impact of the collision on the rider. NASA is exploring the possibility of this high-G sensor technology being used to protect astronauts from harm when landing.

"We redesigned the driver's earphone plugged into the ear canal," said Jeff Horton, director of engineering at IndyCar. "In the event of an impact, ADI's MEMS sensors were able to measure all the impact that the rider's head may experience during an accident."

IndyCar is now equipped with these high-g acceleration sensors and writes data from these acceleration sensors into a black box that can record accident records for 90 seconds of data capacity. In the event of an accident, the system will be shut down when it is affected by an impact. Acceleration sensor data 30 seconds before and 60 seconds after the impact was related to head injury data. The purpose is to extract valuable information from these sources to improve the safety of the IndyCar cockpit.

With the help of the Center for Biomechanics Research of the National Highway Traffic Safety Production Supervision Authority, accidents that can lead to injuries will be reproduced. Using the collision dummy “Thor” equipped with 15 high-g acceleration sensors in the center, IndyCar engineers can simulate crash damage.

With the development of technology, sensors will also play a more important role, and bionic smart sensors will also develop with the progress of bioengineering technology. The future development of sensor technology will realize more possibilities.

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