Single-Chip MEMS IMU for Integrated Avionics and Seeker Image Stabilization for the MKV

MSSA is developing a single-chip MEMS IMU sensor that integrates all the necessary inertial instruments on the same vacuum-encapsulated chip, which permits the use of the IMU in die form. MSSA has specified a high data-rate version of this MEMS IMU to provide both short-term guidance and seeker image stabilization for MKV kill vehicles. MSSA will collaborate with Innovative Business Solutions, Inc. and with STI Electronics, Inc. to implement a system concept developed by Lockheed Martin that combines the IMU sensor, FPGA electronics, the SPAR-X Image Processor and a mission computer into a highly integrated package that couples high-density electronics with passive thermal management. This revolutionary approach will result in a low cost, high performance integrated avionics suite applicable to MKV and other MDA interceptor programs. MSSA proposes to develop an enhanced version of the MEMS IMU that implements a high data rate gyro concept. In Phase I, MSSA will design and fabricate a MEMS IMU chip to prove the high data rate concept using existing instrument designs. The single-chip IMU integrated with FPGA electronics using the STI packaging technology will be a highly versatile MEMS IMU product that can be configured to address many different military and commercial applications.