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1 issue 3 Editorial Welcome to the MiniFaros EC funded project third newsletter. MiniFaros is continuing successfully its activities. The work performed so far has been disseminated for the first time to the wider public through two major events in Europe: the ITS European Congress that took place in Lyon on June 8-9, 2011 and the AMAA Conference specializing on Microsystems for Automotive applications. Minifaros featured 3 papers in the Conference achieving thus a very strong representation to that particular conference that took place in Berlin on June 29-30, In this Newsletter various articles containing among others information on the project advancements that were presented in the past Conferences as well as updates on the core research items are included. More information can be found on the project website ( while Minifaros has also a page on Facebook as a supplementary communication channel. Enjoy reading. Inside this issue: Editorial 1 TDC11 (Time-to- Digital Converter) (J. Kostamovaara) 2 Omnidirectional lenses for low cost laser scanners (M. Aikio ) 3 MEMS mirror for low cost laser scanners (U. Hofmann) 4 News and Events 6 MiniFaros Consortium 7 TDC11 (Time-to-Digital Converter) functionality and performance now verified One of the project goals is to develop a multi-channel time-to-digital converter integrated circuit, which measures the time intervals between the emitted laser pulse and several successive echoes related to the transmitted pulse (T SP1 -T SP3 in Fig.1). Moreover, the device is to measure the widths of the received echoes, which can then be used for the walk error compensation (T W1 -T W3 in Fig. 1). The timing walk (dependence of the timing moment on the echo amplitude, see Fig. 1.) is the main source of systematic error in pulsed time-offlight laser radars. In fact, the accurate multi-channel TDC techniques to be developed enable in principle the realization of new multiple-threshold timedomain RF/high-speed optical pulse detection principles and circuits. The latter make it possible to detect with picosecond accuracy the time position of the received pulse over a wide dynamic amplitude range exceeding that of the receiver. It is also believed that the use of these tech-
2 niques may result in reduction in power consumption and complexity relative to the levels available with traditional high-speed synchronous receiver sampling and AD conversion techniques. This CMOS time-to-digital converter (TDC11) developed by the University of Oulu team has now been realized and tested with respect to the main performance parameters. The main performance parameters of the TDC11 are its measurement precision (sigma value of the distribution of the single shot measurement results for a constant time interval), measurement accuracy and drift. The measurement precision of the developed device is shown in Figure 2 and demonstrates a single shot precision of better than 10ps. The TDC11 is capable of measuring also negative time intervals (time intervals where stop signal preceeds the start signal, which may well be the case in a practical laser radar at short measurement distances due to the electronic delay in the start pulse generation). The accuracy is at the level of a few pico seconds and partly limited by the performance of the measurement arrangement. The temperature drifts of the TDC11 with respect to the start-stop time interval and stop pulse width are shown in Fig. 3 indicating a drift of ~0,3ps/ C and ~0,4ps/ C, respectively. The measurement results verify the operation of the TDC in different circumstances with the state-of-the art performance. Time interval measurement is stable with respect to Figure 1: TDC11 measurement approach. variations in temperature and operating voltage, and the low internal jitter in the delay lines makes it possible to use a low frequency external crystal as a reference. A measurement precision better than about 10ps is achieved over the whole temperature range (C). Figure 2: Single shot measurement precision Figure 3: Start-stop and Stop pulse width drifts of the TDC11 in relation to Temperature (C)
3 Omnidirectional lenses for low cost laser scanners There is a need for small sensors that provide 360- degree field of view in intelligent vehicle applications. The usual technique has been to use a catadioptric system where a conical shaped mirror is placed in front of a camera, providing 360- degree horizontal field of view and a few decades of degrees of vertical view. The downside of these kinds of systems has been their size, usually ranging around 20 centimetres. A so-called omnidirectional lens can fold the optical path inside the lens decreasing the volume requirements considerably, while still providing comparative optical performance. In this work, two different omnidirectional lens systems are presented, more common type of this lens images a whole surrounding scenery to an image sensor, providing instant 360-degree field of view. The other lens can select a known position from the 360-degree scenery, and provide an undistorted image of it. The other application for this type of lens is a laser scanner that necessitates direction selectivity. The general objective of the current Minifaros-project is to replace a large rotating mirror from laser scanners with a MEMS mirror. Instead of imaging a whole scenery reflected at the lens, a rotating mirror is used to select a portion of the scenery to be imaged on the sensor or to be measured with a laser scanner. This kind of lens is new and no prior art work has been published. The Figure 4: A sketch of an omnidirectional lens that has a beam direction capability. working principle of the lens is shown in Figure 4, and one manufactured lens is shown in Figure 5. A biaxial laser scanner consisting of two lenses as shown in Figure 5 was constructed, and the performance was evaluated. The divergence of the sensor was 30 milliradians with a detector of diameter 200 µm. The signal to noise ratio allowed the usage of the sensor up to 10 metres, with a black diffuse target. Expanding the measurement distance from this is one of the objectives in Minifaros project. Omnidirectional vision and sensor systems are important in autonomous vehicle operations if the amount of sensors needs to be reduced. By using a large field of view sensor, there is no need to have multiple sensors in a vehicle. However, one constraint on using them has been the size, manufacturing tolerances and the price of the resulting system. The type of omnidirectional lens presented just above allows also imaging of the surrounding scenery without distortion, if multiple exposures are taken and the avalanche photo diode is replaced with a small image sensor. The second important factor to be considered is the price of the sensor and related optics. The omnidirectional Figure 5: A manufactured omnidirectional lens which is used in conjunction with a beam steering mirror. lenses are roughly 40 to 50 millimetres in diameter and are made of plastic to allow for easier serial production of this type of optics. In serial production when the production volume approaches hundreds of thousands of pieces per year, the price for a single omnidirectional lens is around several cents. In Minifaros project, the omnidirectional lens is used in a laser scanner application (LIDAR) to prevent and mitigate the consequences of vehicle accidents.
4 MEMS mirror for low cost laser scanners LIDAR sensors are becoming increasingly interesting for the realization and improvement of driver assistance systems like pre-crash safety systems, intersection assistant, lane change assistant, blind spot assistant, parking assistant or traffic jam assistant. A wide angular range and high angular resolution are key-features that scanning LIDAR systems offer. Existing scanning LIDAR systems use bulky servo motors for rotation of a large aperture scanning mirror making it difficult to demonstrate the required sensor dimensions and sensor costs for a series automotive product. But cost reduction and a higher level of miniaturization seem to be possible by introduction of MEMS technology. The concept and the design of a low cost two-axis MEMS scanning mirror that aims at replacing the bulky and expensive conventional laser scanner in an automotive LIDAR sensor application is presented. The key feature of the lowcost LIDAR sensor is an omnidirectional lens that integrates several reflective and refractive functions within one single component like the lens presented in the previous article. Omnidirectional scanning is achieved by first collimating the divergent laser beam by passing the refractive centre area of the omnidirectional lens. The collimated beam then impinges on a 2-axis MEMS scanning mirror. The tilted mirror reflects the beam back to propagate trough the lens again. After passing two internal reflections at two reflective lens facets the beam exits the omnidirectional lens almost perpendicular to the optical axis of the incoming divergent laser beam. According to the cylindrical symmetry of the overall configuration the laser beam can be scanned within the whole range of 360 degrees. The optical concept requires a two-axis MEMS scanning mirror which performs a circular scan at a constant tilt angle of 15 degrees resulting in a cylinder symmetric optical deflection of 30 degrees. In order to enable a long measurement range of up to 80 metres the optical configuration requires a mirror diameter of 7mm. MEMS mirror design MEMS scanning mirrors have been used in many different applications as for instance barcode scanners, laser printers, endoscopes, laser scanning microscopes or laser projection displays. Typically MEMS mirrors have a mirror aperture size within the range of 0.5 to 2 millimetres. There are two major reasons for the limitation of MEMS mirrors to such small dimensions: Firstly, static and dynamic mirror deformations rapidly increase with increasing mirror diameter and secondly, the very low driving forces of MEMS actuators usually do not allow a reasonable tilt angle of high inertia mirrors. Hence, to design and fabricate a 2D-MEMS scanning mirror with an outstanding mirror size of 7 mm and a large mechanical tilt angle of +/-15 degrees is a challenge. Static and dynamic mirror deformation The optical conception of the LIDAR sensor requires that deformation of the MEMS mirror plate does not exceed +/-500 nanometres. Deformations can be caused by stress gradients within the layers which the mirror is being made of. Typically the uppermost reflective layer introduces mechanical stress that deforms the mirror to some extent. But more often deformation is predominantly caused by the MEMS mirror dynamics. The dynamic mirror deformation is known to scale proportional to the fifth power of mirror diameter. This scaling law indicates that to keep the deformation of a mirror of 7 millimetres and tilt angle of 15 degrees sufficiently low the thickness of the mirror needs to be correctly adjusted. For a more detailed investigation on how different mirror geometries may effect the dy-
5 namic mirror deformation finite element analysis (FEA) was carried out. Three different types of mirrors were simulated: 1) a mirror plate having a standard thickness of 80 microns (typical MEMS device layer thickness), 2) a mirror plate identical to first type but additionally reinforced by a 500 micron thick and 200 microns wide stiffening ring underneath the mirror plate, 3) a solid mirror plate with a thickness of 580 microns. For each type of mirror the simulation of mirror deformation was performed for four different diameters (figure 6). Figure 6: Calculated mirror deformation versus mirror diameter for three different mirror geometries. The FEA showed that a 7mmmirror with a standard thickness of 80 microns would experience unacceptably large deformations exceeding +/-6 microns. Considerable reduction of mirror deformation to only +/-1.2 microns can be achieved by a narrow but 500 microns thick reinforcement ring underneath the mirror. Finally a solid mirror plate with a thickness of 580 microns achieved the best result and showed a minimized mirror deformation of only +/- 0.2 microns. Thus, further design assessments and simulations only considered the two reinforced mirror types. Driving concept and fabrication process In principle electromagnetic actuation would enable to achieve the highest driving forces and hence would be the first choice for actuation of such a high inertia MEMS mirror. But the attractiveness is lowered by the fact that it requires mounting of large permanent magnets on chip level resulting in a too large and too expensive scanning device. A compact and cost effective solution is an electrostatically driven MEMS mirror since the whole device can be produced completely on wafer level including hermetic packaging. Figure 7 shows a two-axes MEMS scanning mirror electrostatically actuated by stacked vertical comb drives. To drive such a large MEMS mirror with an aperture size of 7millimetres to the required large tilt angles of +/-15 degrees it is necessary to apply resonant actuation because it allows to achieve higher oscillation amplitudes. However, if the MEMS mirror works in standard atmosphere damping by gas molecules is so high that even resonant actuation is not sufficient to achieve the required scan angles. To meet the requirements of large mirror size and large tilt angle it is necessary to minimize damping. This can be achieved by packaging the 2D-MEMS scanning on wafer level in a miniature vacuum environment. This allows the MEMS mirror to accumulate driving energy over many thousand oscillation cycles. Figure 7: Typical gimbalmounted two-axes MEMS scanning mirror electrostatically driven by stacked vertical comb drives The low-cost LIDAR MEMS scanning mirror will be fabricated in a dual layer thick polysilicon process. Wafer bonding techniques will be applied to permanently protect each MEMS mirror against contamination by particles, fluids or gases. A titanium getter will be integrated into each MEMS scan-
6 ner cavity in order to achieve a permanent miniature vacuum environment. Suspension concept The standard design to allow a MEMS mirror to scan a laser beam in two dimensions is a gimbal mounted device. But the optical concept of the targeted low-cost LIDAR sensor requires a circular scan trajectory and the MEMS mirror has to provide two perpendicular scan axes that have identical scan frequency. Practically, this is difficult to be achieved using a gimbal mounted mirror design. For that reason a completely different design was chosen which eliminates the need for an outer gimbal frame. Instead of suspending the mirror by two torsional beams the mirror plate is movably kept by three long and circular bending beams. This allows achieving an advantageous ratio of mirror diameter and chip size which is an important factor for a low cost scanner. Because of a considerably lower total mass with respect to a gimbal mirror design such a tripod design shows higher robustness. Finite element analysis has shown that mechanical stress in the bending beams can be kept sufficiently low to enable the required tilt angle of 15 degrees. Regardless of the three beams which are spatially separated by angles of 120 degree the mirror builds two perpendicular tilt axes (two eigenmodes) that have almost identical resonant frequencies. In comparison with a gimbal mounted mirror design the tripod approach shows a considerably lower number of parasitic eigenmodes. Different variants of such a tripod MEMS mirror design will be fabricated covering a range of scan frequency of 600Hz to 1.6kHz. This scan frequency depends on the stiffness of the three suspensions and by the moment of inertia which is different for a solid reinforced mirror and for the ring reinforced mirror. The whole 360 degree scenery is thus scanned at a rate of 600Hz or higher. News and Events Minifaros managed to participate in two major conferences this period, initiating thus successfully the dissemination of its mid-term results. ITS in Europe, Lyon France, June 8-9, 2011 Minifaros was represented by Florian Ahlers (SICK) to the special session SS 42 / Avoiding accidents by enhanced perception and active interventions: a look into the future of intelligent vehicles organized jointly by the IP interactive and Minifaros. A presentation about the novel laser scanners and its applications AMAA th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications Minifaros had a strong presence featuring 4 papers accompanied by the respective presentations. Presentations were very attractive to the audience consisting of key stakeholders from the automotive companies and suppliers.
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