Murilo Ferreira Marques dos Santos
Papers
4
Total Citations
96
H-Index
4
About
Murilo Ferreira Marques dos Santos is a researcher specializing in optical fiber sensing technologies and their applications in human-robot interaction (HRI), biomechatronics, and wearable sensor systems. His work centers on the innovative use of flexible optical fiber transducers to measure angular displacements in human finger joints, bridging the gap between photonics engineering and practical human-machine interface design. Santos is perhaps best known for his development of low-cost, flexible optical fiber bending transducers integrated into instrumented gloves — devices capable of detecting subtle variations in finger joint angles with high sensitivity. His 2014 paper on flexible optical fiber bending transducers has garnered 70 citations, underscoring the significant interest his work has generated within the sensing and robotics communities. By exploiting microbending-induced light intensity attenuation, his sensor designs achieve angular resolution as fine as approximately 4°, making them well-suited for teleoperation, gesture-based robot navigation, and rehabilitation applications. Across multiple studies published between 2013 and 2014, Santos has consistently demonstrated the practical viability of glove-based optical fiber sensors, accumulating nearly 100 citations in total. His contributions represent meaningful advances in wearable sensing technology, offering researchers and engineers accessible, lightweight solutions for monitoring human motion in biomechatronic contexts.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4