A capacitive 4-turn angular-position sensor

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 275-279

  Brasseur, Georg ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

4 turn angular position sensor; Capacitive transducer; Measurement; Measurement errors; Ratiometric measurement principle; Robustness

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

CAPACITIVE TRANSDUCERS; RATIOMETRIC MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 0031988251     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.728833     Document Type: Article

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