Capacitive angular-position sensor with electrically floating conductive rotor and measurement redundancy

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 514-520

  Ferrari, Vittorio ^a   Ghisla, Alessio ^a   Marioli, Daniele ^a   Taroni, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angular position sensors; Capacitive sensors; Contactless sensor; Measurement redundancy; Position measurement; Relaxation oscillator

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; ROTORS; SENSORS;

CAPACITIVE ANGULAR-POSITION SENSOR; ELECTRICALLY FLOATING CONDUCTIVE ROTOR; MEASUREMENT REDUNDANCY;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33645310198     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.864243     Document Type: Article

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