Intrinsic transducer

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Intrinsic transducer

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Contents

1 Description
2 Who's involved
3 Incentives
4 Tools, activities, and processes
5 Skills and resources needed
6 Status

Description

Design intrinsically bend-sensitive optical fiber for very sensitive displacement/force sensors.

See more on the ENGAGE grant application.

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Applications

Used in biology and physiology.
Used in robotics.

Short-term goals

Get an ENGAGE grant for development - DONE!!

Long-term goals

Have different fiber recipes and a fabrication facility OR a supplier.

Milestones

Explore a few different designs and chose a few of those
Fabricate a few types of bend-sensitive fiber, different diameters are required
Perform opto-mechanical characterization of the fiber
Integrate new fiver into the Mosquito

Who's involved

Tibi, Tactus (Francois and Ivan), Jonathan, Hang, Maksim
[This list will be replaced with a UI/script which will automatically pull info from the activity log, and display members
involved and their relative contribution. See infrastructure activity cluster for more on infrastructure development.]

Incentives

Revenue will be generated by selling transducers. Transducers are consumables, they have a finite life-time and they need to be replaced from time to time. Transducers are used in the Mosquito, and other systems that integrate the Mosquito.

All members involved in design and prototyping of the transducer will be compensated from the income generated by sales, in proportion with their involvement. Any future improvement of theconstriction transducer will be accounted for.
Members taking part in designing and building the semi-automated manufacturing device to assemble our transducers will also have a cut from the revenue generated by every transducer sold.
Members involved in the manufacturing process will get compensated according to the amount of time they put in for every batch of transducers sold.

See SENSORICA Business Model and Value Accounting System.

Tools, activities, and processes

Database

We're using the folder ENSORICA/Projects/Mosquito/Intrinsic transducer - Maksim (members only)

open main doc (members only)

Use mosquito_project_intrinsic as tag for Diigo

Skills and resources needed

optical fiber design, optical engineering, non-linear optics

Contact us if you want to contribute!

Optical Fiber Based Displacement-Force Sensors

Status

First results with the bragg fiber Hang, working from his lab at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, obtained the first conclusive results for the intrinsic bend-sensitive optical fiber. This optical fiber has immediate applications in ...
Posted Jan 22, 2013, 7:41 PM by Sensorica Group
Project is starting We are getting ready to perform the first tests on some polymer bandgap fibers. Ordered the (330micron and 125micron inner diameter) connectors for polishing the fiber about two weeks ago ...
Posted Nov 22, 2012, 6:37 PM by hang qu
ENGAGE grant was awarded! A $25,000 grant was awarded on Oct 5th, 2012. The goal of this project is to design new optical fiber displacement/force transducers. See grant application - members only. See ...
Posted Oct 15, 2012, 6:43 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Ecole Polytechnique accepted to transfer the ENGAGE grant application to NSERC The Ecole Polytechnique accepted to transfer the ENGAGE grant application to NSERC. Good news ! This is the second hurdle cleared for obtaining this grant, which will be used for developing ...
Posted Aug 28, 2012, 5:29 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
ENGAGE grant - moving forward François Santerre, our contact at NSERC, gave us the green light to submit our ENGAGE grant proposal with Maksim Skorobogatiy for the development of other types of force-sensitive optical ...
Posted Aug 4, 2012, 5:37 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu