To meet the application requirements of curvature measurement for soft biomedical robotics and flexible morphing wings of aircraft, the optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) shape sensor for soft robots and flexible morphing wing was implemented. This op...
In this paper, a strain–temperature sensor with medium-high stretchability is proposed for aeronautic applications. The elastomer is conceived to be used as a protective cover on a morphing airfoil characterized by high curvatures. The main nov...
In the paper the description of an experiment for a comparative analysis of two different methods for deformation determination, geodetic and 2D deflection sensors based on fiber-optic curvature sensors (FOCSs) is given. The experiment is performed b...
In this paper, we demonstrate an improvement in the accuracy of a low-cost smart temperature sensor, by measurement of the nonlinear curvature correction at multiple temperature references. The sensors were positioned inside a climate chamber and con...
This work demonstrates the potential of combining a microsphere with a tip for the functionality of the contact sensor. This sensor consists of a tip aligned with the fiber core and a microsphere, which appears during tip formation. This new structur...
An optical strain gauge based on a balloon-like interferometer structure formed by a bent standard single-mode fiber combined with a 3D printer piece has been presented and demonstrated, which can be used to measure displacement. The interferometer h...
The paper proposes a flexible and efficient wavenumber domain processing scheme suited for close formations of low earth orbiting (LEO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors hosted on micro-satellites or CubeSats. Such systems aim to generate a high...
Bin picking is a challenging problem that involves using a robotic manipulator to remove, one-by-one, a set of objects randomly stacked in a container. In order to provide ground truth data for evaluating heuristic or machine learning perception syst...
This study proposes and demonstrates a highly sensitive displacement sensor based on a flexible random laser. The sensor utilizes a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film where a self-assembled surface grating structure is formed via oxygen plasma surface...
The flexibility of amorphous Giant Magneto-Impedance (GMI) micro wires makes them easy to use in several magnetic field sensing applications, such as electrical current sensing, where they need to be deformed in order to be aligned with the measured...
Self-excited oscillations have the advantages of absorbing energy from a stable environment and Self-control; therefore, Self-excited motion patterns have broader applications in micro devices, autonomous robots, sensors and energy-generating devices...