查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-According to news reporting originatin g from Washington,D.C.,by NewsRx journalists,a patent application by the inve ntor NEVOLIN,Aleksandr Olegovich (Moscow,RU),filed on December 2,2021,was m ade available online on February 22,2024.No assignee for this patent application has been made.Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:" "Field of the Invention "The invention relates to the field of measuring technology,in particular,to i nstruments for measuring in-motion only deformations of elements in the structur e of devices,preferably a delta robot."Description of Related Art "The prior art discloses a device for measuring structural deformation,which co mprises a channel,a transmitter connected to the first end of the channel,a re ceiver connected to the second end of the channel,and a controller.The channel is deformable,the controller orders the transmitter to transmit a signal,orde rs the receiver to capture one or more measurements of the transmitted signal,a nd determines the channel bend based on the one or more measurements.In one emb odiment,the transmitter is a light source,the channel is an optical fiber,and the receiver is a photodiode.In addition,the channel is made of a material wh ose refractive index changes depending on the applied mechanical stress.The def ormation measurement device may also include a polarizer located between the tra nsmitter and the channel,and a wave plate located between the channel and the r eceiver (U.S.Ser.No.10/429,210 B1,Oct.1,2019).