• DocumentCode
    3247700
  • Title

    Transforming a CD/DVD pick-up-head into an accelerometer

  • Author

    Chieh, Jih-Wei ; Hung, Shao-Kang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    14-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    493
  • Lastpage
    497
  • Abstract
    An accelerometer based on a commercial CD/DVD pick-up-head is proposed in this paper. A CD/DVD pick-up-head becomes an accelerometer by transforming the astigmatic measuring mechanism, the suspending wires, and the objective lens as the displacement sensor, the spring, and the seismic mass, respectively. The experiments demonstrate that this cost-effective accelerometer has excellent linearity, ultra high sensitivity of 114 V/g, and an operating frequency of 20 Hz.
  • Keywords
    CD-ROMs; aberrations; accelerometers; digital versatile discs; lenses; CD-DVD pick-up-head; accelerometer; astigmatic measuring mechanism; displacement sensor; frequency 20 Hz; objective lens; seismic mass; suspending wires; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Atom optics; Bandwidth; DVD; Displacement measurement; Frequency; Lenses; Optical sensors; Seismic measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2009. AIM 2009. IEEE/ASME International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2852-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AIM.2009.5229966
  • Filename
    5229966