Capacitive sensor for relative angle measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1145-1148

  Fulmek, Paul L ^b   Wandling, Florian ^b   Zdiarsky, Wolfgang ^b   Brasseur, Georg ^a,c   Cermak, Stefan P ^c  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capacitive sensor; Contact less; Low cost; Robust sensors; Torque sensor

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RATE SENSORS; CAPACITIVE MODELS; ROTATING SHAFTS; STATOR SEGMENTS;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITORS; ROTORS; SHAFTS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

SENSORS;

EID: 27744450666     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.808052     Document Type: Article

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