Deflection measurements in soft structures with optical fiber specklegram sensor
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Soft robots fabricated from biocompatible and biodegradable materials, such as hydrogels, are breakthrough technologies for biomedical and environmental applications, including minimally invasive surgeries and drug delivery systems. Agar offers advantages such as thermal reversibility, edibility, and controllable optical and mechanical properties. However, the integration of sensing systems into such actuators remains limited, impairing the implementation of feedback control strategies. Therefore, this study explores multimode optical fibers as embedded sensors to measure angular deformation in agar-based structures with two degrees of freedom. Controlled mechanical stimuli were applied to both the base and tip of the soft device, while output fiber speckle patterns were acquired by a CCD camera. Evaluating the cross-correlation between reference and test speckle images provided quantification of angular displacements θ<sub>1</sub> and θ<sub>2</sub>. Linear regression calibration models yielded reliable measurement of angular responses by decoupling simultaneous deformations. This proof-of-concept study contributes to photonics and soft robotics-related areas by establishing biodegradable systems instrumentation with integrated optical sensing capabilities.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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