Development of Capacitive Position Transducers through a Mechatronic Approach

摘要

The position parameter is one of the most important parameters in engineering. Position measurement techniques apply position transducers that transfer the actual value of the position parameter into an electronic signal. Position transducers can be divided into two groups. The first covers the absolute position transducers. In this case, a position transducer measures the position of a target relative to a fixed absolute zero point of a positioning system. The second group deals with the relative position transducers. This type of transducer measures the position of a target relative to a variable point. The relative position transducers are often called displacement transducers as will be the case in the thesis.