Название: Understanding Position Sensors
Автор: David S. Nyce
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 432
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 27.0 MB

As the definitive resource on position sensing technology, Understanding Position Sensors encompasses all aspects necessary for a full understanding of the field, with topics of background, operational theory, design, and application.

While grasping the theory of technologies used in the measurement of linear and angular/rotary position sensors, the reader will also learn about terminology, interfacing, testing, and other valuable concepts that are useful in the understanding of sensors in general.

The first three chapters provide readers with the necessary background information on sensors. These chapters review the working definitions and conventions used in sensing technology; specification of position sensors and the effect on performance; and sensor output types, plus an extensive section covering communication protocols. The remaining chapters describe each separate sensor technology in detail. These include resistive sensors, cable extension transducers, capacitive sensors, inductive sensors, LVDT and RVDT sensors, distributed impedance sensors, Hall effect sensors, magnetoresistive sensors, magnetostrictive sensors, linear and rotary encoders, optical triangulation position sensors, and ultrasonic position sensors.

Compared with the predecessor text Position Sensors, this Understanding Position Sensors includes updated information, and extensive new information has been incorporated. A new chapter has been included on ultrasonic position sensors. Many new figures and more detailed explanations have been added, plus new sections on EtherNet/IP and MODBUS.

Chapter 1 presents a working definition of terminology used in the field of sensing technology. Chapter 2 explains how the performance of position sensors, and sensors in general, is specified. Chapter 3 presents the various protocols for analog and digital signal output types. The remaining chapters present the theory supporting the prominent technologies in use in linear and angular/rotary position sensor and transducer products. Application guidance and examples are also included.

- Presents sensor specification, theory of operation, sensor design, and application criteria
- Reviews the background history of position sensors as well as the underlying engineering techniques
- Includes end-of-chapter exercises

Understanding Position Sensors is written for electrical, mechanical, and material engineers, as well as for engineering students who are interested in understanding sensor technologies, and can be used as a textbook for an engineering course on sensor technology.