A Contactless Capacitive Angular-Position Sensor

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 880-884

  Gasulla, Manel ^a   Van der Ham, Lucas ^b   Li, Xiujun ^c   Spronck, Jo W ^b   Meijer, Gerard C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Koiter Institute Delft   (Netherlands)

^c Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absolute position encoder; Angular position measurement; Capacitive sensor; Contactless angle encoder; Rotary position

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUNDING ELECTRODES; MICROCONTROLLERS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; ROTATION; ROTORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; STEEL STRUCTURES; TRACKING (POSITION);

ABSOLUTE POSITION ENCODER; ANGULAR POSITION MEASUREMENT; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CONTACTLESS ANGLE ENCODER; ROTARY POSITION;

SENSORS;

EID: 1542318477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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