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2020
Journal Article
Titel
Fiber optical multifunctional human-machine interface for motion capture, temperature, and contact force monitoring
Abstract
A compact and wireless multifunctional human-machine interface (HMI) based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) technology is presented. The interface is embedded into a glove and enables the motion capture of a human hand with finger tracking and hand wrist rotation monitoring, as well as temperature and contact force detection. For the realization of a complex hand tracking, a novel fiber optical rotation sensor based on three-dimensional shape sensing with Edge-FBG is presented. The data are evaluated within a micro-interrogator and wireless transferred to a smart glass in real-time. The HMI addressed different applications in motion capture for virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR).