This thesis concerns the fabrication, characterization, and application of fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs). Being in-fibre wavelength-selective reflectors, FBGs have wide applications in optical communication and sensing systems. Compared with conventional bulk-optic gratings, FBGs offer the advantages of low loss, polarisation independence, compatibility with fibres, ease of fabrication, small size, and low cost. For the fabrication [...]
A visual query language served by a multi-sensor environment
A problem in modern command and control situations is that much data is available from different sensors. Several sensor data sources also require that the user has knowledge about the specific sensor types to be able to interpret the data.To alleviate the working situation for a commander, we have designed and constructed a system that [...]
A method for collision handling for industrial robots
This master’s thesis presents the development of a collision handling function for Motoman industrial robots and investigates further use of the developed software. When a collision occurs the arm is to be retracted to a safe home location and the job is to be restarted to resume the production. The retraction can be done manually, [...]