Modeling of the front end of a new capacitive finger-type angular-position sensor

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 111-116

  Brasseur, Georg ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR POSITION SENSOR; ANGULAR SPEED SENSOR; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CARRIER FREQUENCY SYSTEM; RATIOMETRIC MEASUREMENT;

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; CAPACITANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITION CONTROL; SPEED CONTROL; TOPOLOGY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SENSORS;

EID: 0035249237     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.903887     Document Type: Article

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