• ADI began exploring MEMS in the late 1980’s developing the iMEMS® process integrating sensors with active circuits. That processes culminated in our first product, the ADXL50, released in 1993 targeting automotive airbag deployment. Over the ensuing 30 years, ADI and others have deployed numerous MEMS processes and technologies for inertial sensing, pressure sensing, and optical actuation. As the technology matures, manufacturing commonalities and consolidation are leading to increasing scale, lower cost, and commoditization. ADI enters a 4th decade of inertial MEMS continuing to develop high performance accelerometers, gyroscopes, and IMUs.

  • The Highly Accelerated Learning of Vibratory Systems (HALOVS) portfolio in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office is a fundamental science portfolio to develop, model, prototype, and demonstrate technologies to overcome the existing performance limitations of vibratory sensors for improved positioning and navigation. In this presentation I  highlight recent results from the HALOVS initiative [1] and hope to inspire the IEEE Inertial community to leverage the results to improve on the four pillars of vibratory sensors: noise and bias drift, scale factor, shock and vibration, and aging.

  • Inertial sensors are foundational to modern motion intelligence, powering applications from smartphones and wearables to robotics and autonomous systems, yet they remain constrained by noise, drift, and the "simulation-to-reality" gap. What if we could solve these physical limitations using the power of generative AI? This keynote presentation unveils a transformative approach: embedding kinematic laws directly into Large Foundation Models.

  • Atomic clocks helped to revolutionize navigation as the backbone technology of our modern GNSS networks around the globe. Magnetic navigation aiding is demonstrating closed loop operation in field tests using atomic magnetometers as a key enabling component. Atomic/quantum inertial sensors are now leaving the lab and completing field trials at sea, in the air, and on orbit. These sensors appear to be on the cusp of commercialization for some niche applications and continue to promise greater impact products in the future.