The possibilities of using measuring equipment, as well as navigation and flight instruments, with constant demand, have always been limited by the characteristics of the primary sensors. At the moment, the need for increasingly accurate and reliable instruments and measuring transducers is partially met. According to experts, this fact encourages us to look for the latest approaches to solving this problem.

Currently, sensors for monitoring motion parameters (measuring acceleration, shock, vibration, angles of deviation from a given position) are widely used to control various objects.

Now the scientists of the Southern Federal University are faced with the task of creating an inertial system based on micromechanical sensors, designed for land, sea and aviation navigation.

According to Olga Ezhova, a senior researcher at the Design Center of the Microelectronic Component Base for Artificial Intelligence Systems at the Southern Federal University, such a system will be able to determine the position of an object along three axes with a single sensor element, i.e., give out basic information about a moving or moving object: orientation, stabilization, and leveling.

Angular velocity and linear acceleration sensors are widely used in modern technical devices for various purposes: from specialized industrial products to household appliances, such as cell phones and new-generation gaming platforms, as well as in the IoT (Internet of Things) and robotics.

MEMS-based sensors are also widely used in other solutions. For example, in a global navigation satellite system) or a GPS receiver, they allow you to maintain the accuracy and continuity of navigation when signal reception is lost. In the automotive industry, these components allow you to increase the level of comfort of cars (dynamic traffic control, anti-lock braking, navigation and safety systems). And in medical technology, the use of such sensors allows you to create intelligent prosthetics systems with the functions of controlling the position and movement in space of the executive organs of the human body.

Thus, the role of devices based on MEMS technologies in the economy of highly developed countries is constantly increasing.

The project "Development and research of multi-axis micromechanical sensors of angular velocities and linear accelerations, characterized by higher functionality, consisting in the possibility of registering angular velocities and linear accelerations" was supported by a grant from the President of the Russian Federation.