[EN] In order to provide high accuracy in shape measurement with multicore optical fibres, characterization and calibration procedures are an important part of sensor preparation. Some procedures can be considered mandatory ...
Floris, Ignazio; Sangiorgio, Valentino; Adam, Jose M; Uva, Giuseppina; Rapido, Monica; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Madrigal-Madrigal, Javier(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-09)
[EN] The structural health monitoring (SHM) of existing buildings, structures, and infrastructures has become increasingly important in recent years, while the interest of the scientific community is focused on the use of ...
Floris, Ignazio; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2019-06)
[EN] Optical fiber sensors are now widely recognized as extremely reliable instruments to sense strain. Optical shape sensors consist of multiple single-core optical fibers or multicore optical fibers capable of sensing ...
Floris, Ignazio; Madrigal-Madrigal, Javier; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Adam, Jose M; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio(Elsevier, 2020-03)
[EN] This paper compares the performance of optical Multicore Fibres (MCFs) with inscribed Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBGs) used as curvature and shape sensors in relation to strain sensor length. Two fibre optic shape sensors, ...
de la Torre, Oscar; Floris, Ignazio; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Escaler, Xavier(MDPI AG, 2021-07)
[EN] The present paper assesses the performance and characteristics of fiber Bragg grating sensors, with a special interest in their applications in hydraulic machinery and systems. The hydropower industry is turning to ...
Lo Presti, Daniela; Massaroni, Carlo; Leitao, Catia Sofia Jorge; Domingues, Maria De Fátima; Sypabekova, Marzhan; Barrera, David; Floris, Ignazio; Massari, Luca; Oddo, Calogero Maria; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Iordachita, Iulian Ioan; Tosi, Daniele; Schena, Emiliano(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020)
[EN] In the last decades, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) have become increasingly attractive to medical applications due to their unique properties such as small size, biocompatibility, immunity to electromagnetic interferences, ...
Floris, Ignazio; Adam, Jose M; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Sales Maicas, Salvador(Elsevier, 2021-04)
[EN] Fiber Optic Shape Sensing is an innovative Optical Fiber Sensing Technology that uses a fiber optic cable to continuously track the 3D shape and position of a dynamic object (with unknown motion) in real-time without ...
Floris, Ignazio; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2019-01)
[EN] This paper describes a study of the influence of strain measurement uncertainty on sensing curvature and bending direction, considering one of the most widely used fiber geometries for sensing applications (7-core ...
Floris, Ignazio(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-07-27)
[EN] Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a discipline that quantitatively assesses the integrity and performance of infrastructures, relying on sensors, and support the development of efficient Maintenance and Rehabilitation ...
[EN] This Letter presents a simple temperature-insensitive optical tilt sensor based on a single eccentric-core fiber Bragg grating (ECFBG). By partly inserting an ECFBG into a ceramic ferrule, the reflection spectrum of ...
Floris, Ignazio; Madrigal-Madrigal, Javier; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2020-06)
[EN] This study presents a novel method for twisting compensation in optical shape sensing and first reports on twisting sensing by using Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) inscribed in a spun Multicore Fiber (MCF). A simple ...