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 …

Advances in medicine and improvements in life quality has led to an increase in the life
expectancy of the general population. An ageing world population have placed demands on …

Smart sensing for aeronautical applications is a multidisciplinary process that involves the
development of various sensor elements and advancements in the nanomaterials field. The …

Monitorization of gait‐related parameters is of the utmost importance to prevent
complications in several diseases, ensuring affordable healthcare for the growing amount of …

Diabetes is highly prevalent throughout the world and imposes a high economic cost on
countries at all income levels. Foot ulceration is one devastating consequence of diabetes …

In this article, we thoroughly discuss many aspects of diaphragm-embedded optical fiber
sensors covering industrial, robotics and medical applications: from the modeling to field …

Gait is an important part of our life, as it affects many daily activities. Special footwear is
fundamental to obtain an ergonomic gait and to extract data for analysis. The plantar foot …

The advances and fast spread of mobile devices and technologies, we witness today, have
extended its advantages over medical and health practice supported by mobile devices …

Abstract Polymer or Plastic Optical Fiber sensors (POFs) and Fiber Bragg Grating sensors
(FBGs) have gained increasing popularity in biomedical engineering (BME) applications …

In this paper, we investigate the influence of temperature on the transverse force response of
polymer optical fiber Bragg gratings (POFBGs) inscribed in cyclic transparent fluoropolymers …