Garcia Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2021

Information processing in passive elastic structures

Smart devices constantly monitor the environment and analyse the resulting stream of information, waiting for wake-up events ranging from a skipped heartbeat in a pacemaker to a verbal command in an intelligent speaker. In electronic devices, such constant workload requires reliable power and leads to significant battery drainage. The aim of INFOPASS is to answer the need for zero standby power, always-on sensing and processing, by inventing novel components based on architected elastic microstructures. We will focus on passive speech recognition: Vibrating structures that respond with large amplitudes only when excited by a particular spoken word. The components will be based on artificial…

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