Sensorless position detection of a linear actuator using the resonance frequency

Proceedings - The 12th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Maridor, Joel ^a   Katic, Nikola ^a   Perriard, Yves ^a   Ladas, Dimitrios ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT AMPLITUDE; LINEAR ACTUATOR; MOVING PARTS; POSITION DETECTION; POSITION SENSORS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SENSORLESS;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 77950603514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEMS.2009.5382641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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