Centre of mass determination based on an optical weighing machine using fiber Bragg gratings
Centre of mass determination based on an optical weighing machine using fiber Bragg gratings
Date
2015
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Oliveira,R
Paulo Roriz Oliveira
Manuel Joaquim Marques
Orlando Frazão
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The purpose of the present work was to construct a weighing machine based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) for the location of the 2D coordinates of the center of gravity (COG) of objects with complex geometry and density distribution. The apparatus consisted of a rigid equilateral triangular platform mounted on three supports at its vertices, two of them having cantilevers instrumented with FBGs. As an example, two femur bone models, one with and one without a hip stem prosthesis, are used to discuss the changing of the COM caused by the implementation of the prosthesis.