Theses & Papers

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Theses

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David Burnett

Crystal-Free Wireless Communication With Relaxation Oscillators and its Applications

Bradley Wheeler

Low Power, Crystal-Free Design for Monolithic Receivers

Filip Maksimovic

Monolithic Wireless Transceiver Design

Sahar Mesri

Design and User Guide for the Single Chip Mote Digital System

Titan Yuan

Temperature-Compensated BLE Transmission from a Crystal-Free Mote

Papers

Pre-Publication

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T. Chang, T. Claeys, M. Vucinic, X. Vilajosana, T. Yuan, B. Wheeler, F. Maksimovic, D. Burnett, B. Kilberg, K. Pister, T. Watteyne

Industrial IoT with Crystal-Free Mote-on-Chip

T. Chang, T. Watteyne, F. Maksimovic, B. Wheeler, D. C. Burnett, T. Yuan, X. Vilajosana, K. Pister

QuickCal: Assisted Calibration for Crystal-Free Micro-Motes

D. C. Burnett, F. Maksimovic, B. Wheeler, O. Khan, A. M. Niknejad, K. S. J. Pister

Free-Running 2.4 GHz Ring Oscillator-Based FSK TX/RX for Ultra-Small IoT Motes (Accepted EuMIC 2020; to be presented Jan 2021)

Tengfei Chang, Thomas Watteyne, Brad Wheelery, Filip Maksimovicy, David C. Burnetty, Kris Pister

Surviving the Hair Dryer: Continuous Calibration of a Crystal-Free Mote-on-Chip

T. Yuan, F. Maksimovic, B. Wheeler, D. Burnett, L. Lee, T. Watteyne, K. Pister

A Temperature-Compensated BLE Beacon and 802.15.4-to-BLE Translator on a Crystal-Free Mote (Accepted EuMC 2021; to be presented Feb 2022)

2021

  • Small Autonomous Robot Actuator (SARA): A Solar-Powered Wireless MEMS Gripper. Alex Moreno, Austin Patel, Daniel Teal, Hani C. Gomez, Andrew Fearing, Jan S. Rentmeister, Jason Stauth, Kristofer Pister. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7227-7233. IEEE, 2021.

2020

  • Accurate 3D Lighthouse Localization of a Low-Power Crystal-Free Single-Chip Mote. Brian G. Kilberg, Felipe M. R. Campos, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer S. J. Pister. IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, DOI 10.1109/JMEMS.2020.3011460, pp. 1-7, August 2020.

  • Atlas: Exploration and Mapping with a Sparse Swarm of Networked IoT Robots. Razanne Abu-Aisheh, Francesco Bronzino, Myriana Rifai, Brian Kilberg, Kris Pister, Thomas Watteyne. Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT), part of DCOSS, 15-17 June 2020.

  • Demo: 6TiSCH on SCµM, Running a Synchronized Protocol Stack without Crystals. Tengfei Chang, Thomas Watteyne, Brad Wheeler, Filip Maksimovic, Osama Khan, Sahar Mesri, Lydia Lee, Ioana Suciu, Xavier Vilajosana, Kris Pister. ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Lyon France, 17-19 February 2020.

  • 6TiSCH on SCuM: Running a Synchronized Protocol Stack without Crystals. Tengfei Chang, Thomas Watteyne, Brad Wheeler, Filip Maksimovic, Osama Khan, Sahar Mesri, Lydia Lee, Ioana Suciu, Xavier Vilajosana, Kris Pister. MDPI Sensors, vol. 20, num. 1912, March 2020.

  • Solar-Powered Crystal-Free 802.15.4 Wireless Temperature Sensor. Alex Moreno, Austin Patel, Titan Yuan, Andrew Fearing, Jan S. Rentmeister, Jason Stauth, Kristofer Pister. 2020 IEEE SENSORS, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2020.

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T. Yuan, F. Maksimovic, D. C. Burnett, B. Wheeler, L. Lee, K. S. J. Pister

Temperature Calibration on a Crystal-Free Mote

T. Chang, T. Watteyne, B. Wheeler, F. Maksimovic, O. Khan, S. Mesri, L. Lee, I. Suciu, D. Burnett, X. Vilajosana, K. Pister

6TiSCH on SCμM: Running a Synchronized Protocol Stack without Crystals

2019

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B. Wheeler, A. Ng, B. Kilberg, F. Maksimovic, K. S. J. Pister

A Low-Power Optical Receiver for Contact-free Programming and 3D Localization of Autonomous Microsystems

I. Suciu, F. Maksimovic, B. Wheeler, D. C. Burnett, O. Khan, T. Watteyne, X. Vilajosana, K. S. J. Pister

Dynamic Channel Calibration on a Crystal-Free Mote-on-a-Chip

F. Maksimovic, B. Wheeler, D. C. Burnett, O. Khan, S. Mesri, I. Suciu, L. Lee, A. Moreno, A. Sundararajan, B. Zhou, R. Zoll, A. Ng, T. Chang, X. Vilajosana, T. Watteyne, A. Niknejad, K. S. J. Pister

A Crystal-Free Single-Chip Micro Mote with Integrated 802.15.4 Compatible Transceiver, sub-mW BLE Compatible Beacon Transmitter, and Cortex M0

I. Suciu, F. Maksimovic, D. Burnett, O. Khan, B. Wheeler, A. Sundararajan, T. Watteyne, X. Vilajosana, K. Pister

Experimental Clock Calibration on a Crystal-Free Mote-on-a-Chip

D. C. Burnett, B. Wheeler, L. Lee, F. Maksimovic, A. Sundararajan, O. Khan, K. S. J. Pister

CMOS oscillators to satisfy 802.15.4 and Bluetooth LE PHY specifications without a crystal reference

2018

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O. Khan, D. C. Burnett, F. Maksimovic, B. Wheeler, S. Mesri, A. Sundararajan, B. L. Zhou, A. M. Niknejad, K. S. J. Pister

Time Keeping Ability of Crystal-Free Radios

2017

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B. Wheeler, F. Maksimovic, N. Baniasadi, S. Mesri, O. Khan, D. Burnett, A. Niknejad, K. Pister

Crystal-free narrow-band radios for low-cost IoT

D. C. Burnett, B. Wheeler, F. Maksimovic, O. Khan, A. M. Niknejad, K. S. J. Pister

Narrowband communication with free-running 2.4GHz ring oscillators

2016

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O. Khan, B. Wheeler, F. Maksimovic, D. C. Burnett, A. M. Niknejad, and K. S. J. Pister

Modeling the Impact of Phase Noise on the Performance of Crystal-Free Radios

O. Khan, B. Wheeler, D. Burnett, F. Maksimovic, S. Mesri, K. Pister, A. Niknejad

Frequency Reference For Crystal Free Radio