The application of the capacitor's physics to optimize capacitive angular-position sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 8-14

  Li, Xiujun ^a   De Jong, Gerben ^a   Meijer, Gérard C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capacitance tranducers; Geometric modeling; Position measurement

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRODES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POSITION MEASUREMENT; TRANSDUCERS;

CAPACITANCE TRANSDUCERS; CAPACITIVE ANGULAR POSITION SENSOR; ELECTRIC FIELD BENDING EFFECT;

SENSORS;

EID: 0031077868     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.552149     Document Type: Article

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