Eddy-current displacement transducer with extended linear range and automatic tuning

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3221-3231

  Vyroubal, Darko ^a  

^a Karlovac University of Applied Sciences   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Automatic resonance tuning; Contactless displacement transducer; Eddy currents; Linear range extension; Negative impedance converter (NIC); Probe losses compensation; Resonant impedance inversion

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC RESONANCE TUNING; AUTOMATIC TUNING; CONTACTLESS DISPLACEMENT TRANSDUCER; CONTROL LOOP; CONTROL VOLTAGES; IMPEDANCE INVERSION; LINEAR RANGE; LINEAR-RANGE EXTENSION; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NON-LINEARITY; REFERENCE GENERATOR; RESONANT IMPEDANCE INVERSION; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION; TRANSFER CURVES; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEARIZATION; NEGATIVE IMPEDANCE CONVERTERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PROBES; RESONANCE; TUNING;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 69249216465     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2017165     Document Type: Article

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