A microcontroller-based self-calibration technique for a smart capacitive angular-position sensor

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 888-892

  Li, Xiujun ^b   Meijer, Gerard C M ^a,b   De Jong, Gerben W ^c  

^a IEEE

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Capacitive sensor; Multiple electrode; Position measurement; Self calibration

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; POSITION MEASUREMENT;

SELF CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE; SMART CAPACITIVE ANGULAR POSITION SENSOR;

SENSORS;

EID: 0031199476     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.650794     Document Type: Article

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