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+++ title = "Position Sensors" author = ["Thomas Dehaeze"] draft = false +++
- Tags
- [Inertial Sensors]({{< relref "inertial_sensors" >}}), [Force Sensors]({{< relref "force_sensors" >}}), [Sensor Fusion]({{< relref "sensor_fusion" >}})
Absolute Position Sensors
- Collette, C. et al., Review: inertial sensors for low-frequency seismic vibration measurement (Collette {\it et al.}, 2012)
- Collette, C. et al., Comparison of new absolute displacement sensors (Collette {\it et al.}, 2012)
{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/collette12_absolute_disp_sensors.png" caption="Figure 1: Dynamic range of several types of inertial sensors; Price versus resolution for several types of inertial sensors" >}}
Relative Position Sensors
- Fleming, A. J., A review of nanometer resolution position sensors: operation and performance (Andrew Fleming, 2013) ([Notes]({{< relref "fleming13_review_nanom_resol_posit_sensor" >}}))
Technology | Frequency | Resolution | Range | T Range |
---|---|---|---|---|
LVDT | DC-200 Hz | 10 nm rms | 1-10 mm | -50,100 °C |
Eddy current | 5 kHz | 0.1-100 nm rms | 0.5-55 mm | -50,100 °C |
Capacitive | DC-100 kHz | 0.05-50 nm rms | 50 nm - 1 cm | -40,100 °C |
Interferometer | 300 kHz | 0.1 nm rms | 10 cm | -250,100 °C |
Encoder | DC-1 MHz | 1 nm rms | 7-27 mm | 0,40 °C |
Bragg Fibers | DC-150 Hz | 0.3 nm rms | 3.5 cm | -30,80 °C |
Sensor Type | Range | DNR | Resolution | Max. BW | Accuracy |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metal foil | \(10-500 \mu m\) | 230 ppm | 23 nm | 1-10 kHz | 1% FSR |
Piezoresistive | \(1-500 \mu m\) | 5 ppm | 0.5 nm | >100 kHz | 1% FSR |
Capacitive | \(10 \mu m\) to \(10 mm\) | 24 ppm | 2.4 nm | 100 kHz | 0.1% FSR |
Electrothermal | \(10 \mu m\) to \(1 mm\) | 100 ppm | 10 nm | 10 kHz | 1% FSR |
Eddy current | \(100 \mu m\) to \(80 mm\) | 10 ppm | 1 nm | 40 kHz | 0.1% FSR |
LVDT | \(0.5-500 mm\) | 10 ppm | 5 nm | 1 kHz | 0.25% FSR |
Interferometer | Meters | 0.5 nm | >100kHz | 1 ppm FSR | |
Encoder | Meters | 6 nm | >100kHz | 5 ppm FSR |
Strain Gauge
Capacitive Sensor
Description:
- http://www.lionprecision.com/tech-library/technotes/cap-0020-sensor-theory.html
- https://www.lionprecision.com/comparing-capacitive-and-eddy-current-sensors
Micro Sense | link |
Micro-Epsilon | link |
PI | link |
Unipulse | link |
Lion-Precision | link |
Inductive Sensor (Eddy Current)
Micro-Epsilon | link |
Lion Precision | link |
Inductive Sensor (LVDT)
Micro-Epsilon | link |
Keyence | link |
Interferometers
Attocube | link |
Zygo | link |
Smaract | link |
Qutools | link |
Renishaw | link |
Sios | link |
Keysight | link |
Temperature (\(\pm\ ^oC\)) | Pressure (\(\pm\ hPa\)) | Humidity \(\pm\% RH\) | Wavelength Accuracy (\(\pm\ \text{ppm}\)) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Attocube | 0.1 | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
Renishaw | 0.2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
Picoscale | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
(Yoon-Soo Jang & Seung-Woo Kim, 2017)
{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/position_sensor_interferometer_precision.png" caption="Figure 2: Expected precision of interferometer as a function of measured distance" >}}
Fiber Optic Displacement Sensor
Unipulse | link |
Bibliography
Collette, C., Janssens, S., Fernandez-Carmona, P., Artoos, K., Guinchard, M., Hauviller, C., & Preumont, A., Review: inertial sensors for low-frequency seismic vibration measurement, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102(4), 1289–1300 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120110223 ↩
Collette, C., Janssens, S., Mokrani, B., Fueyo-Roza, L., Artoos, K., Esposito, M., Fernandez-Carmona, P., …, Comparison of new absolute displacement sensors, In , International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (ISMA) (pp. ) (2012). : . ↩
Fleming, A. J., A review of nanometer resolution position sensors: operation and performance, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 190(nil), 106–126 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2012.10.016 ↩
Collette, C., Artoos, K., Guinchard, M., Janssens, S., Carmona Fernandez, P., & Hauviller, C., Review of sensors for low frequency seismic vibration measurement (2011). ↩
Jang, Y., & Kim, S., Compensation of the refractive index of air in laser interferometer for distance measurement: a review, International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, 18(12), 1881–1890 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12541-017-0217-y ↩
Backlinks
- [A review of nanometer resolution position sensors: operation and performance]({{< relref "fleming13_review_nanom_resol_posit_sensor" >}})
- [Measurement technologies for precision positioning]({{< relref "gao15_measur_techn_precis_posit" >}})
- [Inertial Sensors]({{< relref "inertial_sensors" >}})