Temperature Sensing Shape Morphing Antenna (ShMoA) [PDF]
Micromachines, 2022 Devices that can morph their functions on demand provide a rich yet unexplored paradigm for the next generation of electronic devices and sensors. For example, an antenna that can morph its shape can be used to adapt communication to different wireless ...
Wenxin Zeng, Wei Wang, Sameer Sonkusale
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Shape Sensing with Rayleigh Backscattering Fibre Optic Sensor [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 In this paper, Rayleigh backscattering sensors (RBS) are used to realize shape sensing of beam-like structures. Compared to conventional shape sensing systems based on fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, RBS are capable of continuous lateral sensing ...
Cheng Xu, Zahra Sharif Khodaei
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Rapid and Accurate Shape-Sensing Method Using a Multi-Core Fiber Bragg Grating-Based Optical Fiber [PDF]
SensorsShape-sensing optical fibers have become increasingly important in applications requiring flexible navigation, spatial awareness, and deformation monitoring.
Georgios Violakis +4 more
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A Critical Comparison of Shape Sensing Algorithms: The Calibration Matrix Method versus iFEM [PDF]
SensorsTwo shape-sensing algorithms, the calibration matrix (CM) method and the inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM), were compared on their ability to accurately reconstruct displacements, strains, and loads and on their computational efficiency.
Cornelis de Mooij, Marcias Martinez
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Optimisation of Sensor and Sensor Node Positions for Shape Sensing with a Wireless Sensor Network—A Case Study Using the Modal Method and a Physics-Informed Neural Network [PDF]
SensorsData of operational conditions of structural components, acquired, e.g., in structural health monitoring (SHM), is of great interest to optimise products from one generation to the next, for example, by adapting them to occurring operational loads.
Sören Meyer zu Westerhausen +3 more
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Shape Sensing of Cantilever Column Using Hybrid Frenet–Serret Homogeneous Transformation Matrix Method [PDF]
SensorsThe Frenet–Serret (FS) framework stands as a pivotal tool in shape sensing for various infrastructures. However, this tool suffers from accumulative errors, particularly at inflection points where the normal vector undergoes sign changes. To minimize the
Peng Zhang +3 more
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MoSS: Monocular Shape Sensing for Continuum Robots [PDF]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 Continuum robots are promising candidates for interactive tasks in medical and industrial applications due to their unique shape, compliance, and miniaturization capability. Accurate and real-time shape sensing is essential for such tasks yet remains a challenge.
Chengnan Shentu +5 more
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Shape Sensing in Plate Structures through Inverse Finite Element Method Enhanced by Multi-Objective Genetic Optimization of Sensor Placement and Strain Pre-Extrapolation [PDF]
SensorsThe real-time reconstruction of the displacement field of a structure from a network of in situ strain sensors is commonly referred to as “shape sensing”. The inverse finite element method (iFEM) stands out as a highly effective and promising approach to
Emiliano Del Priore, Luca Lampani
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Two-node Curved Inverse Finite Element Formulations based on Exact Strain-displacement Solution [PDF]
Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics, 2023 The inverse finite element method (iFEM) is an efficient algorithm developed for real-time monitoring of structures equipped by a network of strain sensors.
Pierclaudio Savino, Francesco Tondolo
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Deep learning-based approach for high spatial resolution fibre shape sensing [PDF]
Communications EngineeringFiber optic shape sensing is an innovative technology that has enabled remarkable advances in various navigation and tracking applications. Although the state-of-the-art fiber optic shape sensing mechanisms can provide sub-millimeter spatial resolution ...
Samaneh Manavi Roodsari +6 more
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