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An inductive sensor system may comprise an upper rotor comprising an upper target having a first metallic pattern; a lower rotor comprising a lower target having a second metallic pattern; and a stationary circuit board positioned between the upper rotor and the lower rotor. The circuit board comprises one or more transmitter coil sets configured to generate electromagnetic field, and one or more receiver coil sets for sensing relative angular displacement movement between the upper rotor and the lower rotor. The one or more transmitter coil sets and the one or more receiver coil sets are circularly wound.

A system, apparatus and method directed to detecting damage to an optical fiber of a medical device. The optical fiber includes one or more core fibers each including a plurality of sensors configured to (i) reflect a light signal based on received incident light, and (ii) alter the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber. The system also includes a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes operations of providing a broadband incident light signal to the multi-core optical fiber, receiving reflected light signals, receiving reflected light signals of different spectral widths of the broadband incident light by one or more of the plurality of sensors, identifying at least one unexpected spectral width or a lack of an expected spectral width, and determining the damage has occurred to the optical fiber based on the identification.

The invention belongs to the technical field of robots, and discloses a biped robot state estimation method based on multi-sensor information, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the data of an inertial measurement unit, a joint encoder and a joint sensor on a biped robot; a self-adaptive threshold contact state detection algorithm based on current sensing information is designed, and the contact state of the sole and the environment is judged in real time; determining a supporting phase of the robot according to the contact state, and applying a dynamic reference system conversion mechanism of supporting phase perception; constructing a state estimator based on invariant extended Kalman filter IEKF, defining a state vector including the posture, position and speed of the robot, performing state prediction by using IMU data, and performing state updating in combination with contact state information, kinematics information and the like; and outputting accurately estimated robot state information. According to the method, the adaptive contact detection and the IEKF are introduced, so that the state estimation precision and robustness of the biped robot in the dynamic walking process are effectively improved.

A container arranged for containing a precursor material for use with a machine for preparing a beverage and / or foodstuff, the container including a machine-readable code storing preparation information for use with a preparation process performed by said machine, the code comprising a plurality of elements, wherein the elements of the code are arranged circumferentially to be read sequentially when the container is rotated about an axis of rotation relative a code reader, wherein the code is arranged as a plurality of directly adjoining discrete positions and an absence or presence of a primary element at a discrete position encodes the preparation information, wherein boundary elements are arranged at a boundary between two or more adjoining primary elements, and / or at a boundary between two or more adjoining absences of primary elements, and the boundary elements are of different reflective properties to a primary element or an absence of a primary element.

The utility model provides an encoder comprising a housing provided with a mounting cavity and a through hole which are communicated with each other; the circuit board is arranged in the mounting cavity; one end of the mounting shaft extends into the mounting cavity through the through hole; the magnetic part is arranged at one end, positioned in the mounting cavity, of the mounting shaft; the magnetic sensitive part is arranged on the side, away from the magnetic part, of the circuit board and electrically connected with the circuit board, and the magnetic sensitive part is opposite to the magnetic part in the axial direction of the mounting shaft. The magnetic sensitive part is arranged on the side, away from the magnetic part, of the circuit board, the distance between the circuit board and the magnetic part is reduced, the thickness space of the circuit board is fully utilized, and therefore the height of the encoder is reduced to the maximum extent, namely the overall axial size of the encoder is reduced, and the size of the encoder is reduced.

An angular displacement sensor based on electric field modulation. The sensor comprises a stator base (1) and a rotor base (2) which are arranged one above the other. One or more pole-pair units are provided on the side surface of the stator base (1) facing the rotor base (2), each pole-pair unit comprises at least three sensing electrode groups which are arranged at intervals circumferentially around the center of the stator base (1), and each sensing electrode group comprises one excitation electrode (1-1) and one sensing electrode (1-2) which are spaced apart circumferentially around the center of the stator base (1); and modulation unit groups, the number of which matches that of pole-pair units and which can respectively correspond to the pole-pair units circumferentially around the center of the rotor base (2) are provided on the side surface of the rotor base (2) facing the stator base (1), each modulation unit group comprises one modulation unit F (2-1) and one modulation unit G (2-2) which are arranged circumferentially around the center of the rotor base (2), and the modulation unit F (2-1) can correspond to at least one sensing electrode group in the pole-pair units circumferentially around the center of the rotor base (2).

The invention provides a method for detecting the position of a multi-code-channel absolute encoder. The multi-code-channel absolute encoder position detection method is characterized in that an incremental signal (1), a single-period subdivision position (2), an absolute position (3) and an absolute subdivision position (4) are included, wherein the absolute position (3) is composed of a credible interval (301) and an uncertain interval (302). Firstly, an incremental signal (1) is composed of periodic AB signals detected by an encoder, then a periodic incremental subdivision phase signal phi is calculated and subdivided from the AB periodic signals, a single-period subdivision position (2) is obtained through calculation, and meanwhile, the encoder calculates an absolute position (3) of a system at the moment from an absolute code channel; a trusted interval (301) of the absolute position (3) is determined from the incremental phase signal phi, and finally an absolute subdivision position (4) is obtained after fusion correction. The method can be used for high-precision absolute position measurement, and can be widely applied to the fields of industrial automation, robot technology, aerospace, precision measurement, positioning control and the like.

The invention relates to a sensor module (50) for an actuating device (1) of a motor vehicle, comprising a plate-shaped sensor element (51), in particular one that can be assigned or is assigned to an actuating element of the actuating device (1), comprising a sensor housing (52), wherein the sensor housing (52) has at least a first cylindrical housing part (53), wherein the sensor element (51) is mounted in the first housing part (53) for longitudinal displacement, and comprising at least one force sensor element (55) assigned to the sensor element (51) for detecting a force exerted on the sensor element (51), in particular by means of the actuating element, and / or at least one displacement sensor element (56) assigned to the sensor element (51) for detecting a displacement path of the sensor element (51).

The invention discloses an outer rotor permanent magnet synchronous motor encoder data correction method and device, and aims to solve the problem of poor precision of encoder position detection of an existing outer rotor permanent magnet synchronous motor. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a current motor position and a motor position in a previous sampling period through an encoder to obtain a first position increment; estimating the current rotating speed of the motor according to the output current of the permanent magnet synchronous motor; obtaining a second position increment according to the current motor rotating speed and the sampling period; and comparing the first position increment with the second position increment to judge whether the data collected by the encoder is abnormal or not, and correcting the abnormal data. The method is simple and reliable, the requirement for the encoder installation process is low, abnormal data errors caused by encoder installation errors or noise interference can be eliminated, the accuracy of encoder detection data is effectively guaranteed, and the stability of closed-loop vector control of the permanent magnet synchronous motor is effectively improved.

A demodulation system for optical fiber Fabry-Perot sensor, including: a light source; a Fabry-Perot sensor; a coupler; a first optical component configured to shape interference light into a linear first interference fringe pattern; a second optical assembly configured to form a second interference fringe pattern; a first detector configured to receive a first light signal to form a first light signal curve; a second detector configured to receive a second light signal to form a second light signal curve; a data collection device configured to receive the first light signal curve from the first detector to generate a first light intensity curve, and receive the second light signal curve from the second detector to generate a second light intensity curve; and a processor configured to calculate a cavity length variation of the Fabry-Perot sensor on the basis of the first light intensity curve and the second light intensity curve.

A rotary actuator includes a housing having a first end and a second end spaced from the first end along an axis. The housing defines a cavity extending circumferentially about the axis. An output shaft is arranged coaxially with the axis. The output shaft extends outwardly from the cavity through the first end. A drive system is disposed in the cavity and axially spaced from the first end. A gearbox is disposed in the cavity between the output shaft and the drive system. The gearbox is coupled to the drive system and the output shaft. A rotational controller is disposed in the cavity between the drive system and the second end. The rotational controller is configured to actuate the drive system to adjust an angular position of the output shaft.

A digital adaptive optics encoder module includes an input mounting flange, a collimating lens, a bandpass filter, digital adaptive optic elements, refocusing lens, an output mounting flange, and a housing. The input mounting flange is capable of attaching to a telescope. The collimating lens is capable of expanding light from a target to fill a plurality of primary apertures. The bandpass filter has a bandwidth ranging from about 40 nm to about 100 nm. The digital adaptive optic elements include the plurality of primary apertures, an optical spreader, a focusing optic, and a detector. The refocusing lens is capable of refocusing an output from the digital adaptive optic elements onto a sensor plane. The output mounting flange is capable of attaching to an output connection. The housing encloses all of the interior components of the digital adaptive optics encoder module.

The invention relates to a quantum dot optical encoder measurement error dynamic compensation method and system and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a multi-color-gamut code channel image according to a quantum dot optical encoder; constructing a sub-pixel level compensation network model; a code channel fine feature extraction network, a causal inference network, a decision network, a sub-pixel level positioning network, a coding and decoding network and Q learning are introduced, so that a single-factor measurement error compensation agent is constructed; parallel decomposition multi-subtask model training is adopted, the output of a causal inference network is combined, and the compensation agent strategy proportion of each influence factor is calculated, so that a measurement error compensation agent under the influence of multiple factors is constructed; and measuring error dynamic compensation is completed. By adopting the method, decoupling of coupling errors of internal and external factors can be realized, and error compensation can be performed in a more targeted manner by analyzing the strategy ratio of each compensation sub-agent, so that the measurement precision is improved.

The present disclosure relates to a system (100) for acoustically detecting a temperature change, the system (100) comprising: at least one conversion element (10) for converting a temperature change into a characteristic sound; an acoustic sensor (40) configured to be mechanically connected to the structure (50) at a distance from the at least one conversion element (10); and a processor (42, 62) coupled to the acoustic sensor (40), in which the at least one conversion element (10) comprises an actuation portion (20) having at least one material having thermal expansion properties such that a change in temperature causes a movement of the actuation portion (20) that causes the conversion element (10) to generate a characteristic sound and conduct the characteristic sound into the structure (50), the acoustic sensor (40) is configured to record a characteristic sound generated by the conversion element (10) as a structural sound propagating through the structure (50), and the processor (42, 62) is configured to detect a temperature change based on the characteristic sound recorded by the acoustic sensor (40).

The invention discloses a data calibration compensation method for an off-axis magnetic encoder, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, calibration initialization: carrying out the initialization of used peripherals, calibration parameters and an encoder chip, and making preparations for calibration; s2, forcibly dragging the motor to align: forcibly dragging a motor rotor to rotate to a position 0 of a nearest electrical angle by adopting a non-inductive control mode, and recording a calibration initial position; s3, calculating calibration data by rotating the motor: recording a data compensation result of the encoder by taking the original data of the encoder as an index; the calibration method does not need other equipment to drive the motor to coaxially rotate for calibration, the stator magnetic field is directly utilized to calibrate the motor, system errors caused by external equipment are avoided, the accurate relative position relation between the electron magnetic field and the rotor magnetic field can be obtained, the driving efficiency is higher, the driving dead zone is smaller, and the calibration precision is higher. And various coaxiality and roundness error data of the off-axis magnetic encoder can be improved.

A linear displacement sensor based on electric field self-coupling, comprising a moving scale base (1) and a fixed scale base (2). One or more paired electrode units are provided on the side surface of the moving scale base (1) facing the fixed scale base (2); each paired electrode unit comprises at least three sensing electrode groups spaced in the length direction of the moving scale base (1); each sensing electrode group comprises one excitation electrode (1-1) and one sensing electrode (1-2) spaced in the length direction of the moving scale base (1). A plurality of modulation unit groups arranged in the length direction of the fixed scale base (2) are provided on the side surface of the fixed scale base (2) facing the moving scale base (1); in the length direction of the fixed scale base (2), all the paired electrode units on the moving scale base (1) can respectively correspond to the same number of adjacent modulation unit groups on the fixed scale base (2); each modulation unit group comprises one modulation unit F(2-1) and one modulation unit G(2-2); the modulation unit F(2-1) can correspond to at least one sensing electrode group in the paired electrode units in the length direction of the fixed scale base (2).

The present invention relates to the technical field of encoders, and particularly to a high-performance magnetic ring encoder and a method for detecting the absolute angle of the magnetic ring encoder. The high-performance magnetic ring encoder includes a second multi-pole magnet, a first multi-pole magnet, a single-pole magnetic conductor assembly, a first group of Hall elements, a second group of Hall elements, and a third group of Hall elements; the single-pole magnetic conductor assembly has a toothed portion and a smooth portion, the first group of Hall elements and the second group of Hall elements are respectively arranged adjacent to the first multi-pole magnet and the second multi-pole magnet, the third group of Hall elements is arranged between the toothed portion and the smooth portion, and the three groups of Hall elements output corresponding detection signals according to the pole signals of the corresponding magnets. The present invention calibrates the rotation angle of the magnetic ring encoder by obtaining a mechanical angle with a certain accuracy, thereby greatly improving the measurement accuracy. The present invention is particularly suitable for meeting the actual requirements of angle detection of large-diameter shaft parts.

An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a housing, and an encoder assembly. The housing defines a motor chamber in which the stator and rotor are at least partly housed. The housing includes an endshield that defines in part the motor chamber. The encoder assembly is configured to sense an operational parameter of the motor and includes an encoder and an encoder cover. The encoder is adjustably positioned within an axially recessed channel of the endshield. The encoder cover is secured relative to the endshield to at least partially overlie the encoder.

The disclosure relates to an electromagnetic transport system and to a method for operating the system. The system comprises a stator and at least one mover which is movable with respect to the stator along a path. The system also comprises a first positioning system with sensors arranged on the stator, which interact with a first encoder track of the at least one mover to determine a position of the at least one mover. The system comprises a second positioning system in at least one zone of the system. That second positioning system comprises at least one sensor which is arranged in the at least one zone, wherein the sensor detects or scans a second encoder track attached to the at least one mover to determine the position of the at least one mover in the at least one zone with a higher accuracy than with the first positioning system.

A system for providing information based on a spectral content of an optical signal, comprises: an optical modulator for applying a time-dependent modulation to the optical signal according to at least one sub-optical modulation frequency, to provide a modulated optical signal. The system also comprises an optoelectronic device configured for receiving the modulated optical signal and responsively generate an electrical sensing signal, and a signal processing system configured for processing the electrical sensing signal and to generate output correlative to at least one wavelength of the optical signal based on the modulation.

The invention discloses a positioning method based on a quantum dot optical encoder, and the method comprises the steps: constructing an HSV three-channel feature extraction network which comprises three feature extraction channels based on an improved U-Net structure, inputting a to-be-measured image into the three feature extraction channels based on the improved U-Net structure, and carrying out the detection of the to-be-measured image through the three feature extraction channels based on the improved U-Net structure, the method comprises the following steps of: obtaining an H-channel feature map, an S-channel feature map and a V-channel feature map correspondingly, performing channel fusion and feature extraction on the H-channel feature map, the S-channel feature map and the V-channel feature map to obtain a first feature map, and performing code channel positioning processing on the first feature map to obtain a positioning result; and performing feature extraction on the positioning result through the HSV three-channel feature extraction network to obtain a second feature map, and performing coding processing and displacement prediction on the second feature map to obtain a measurement result. According to the invention, the measurement precision of the quantum dot optical encoder can be improved.

The invention discloses a displacement sensor, a galvanometer motor system, an assembling method and a signal processing method, the displacement sensor is connected with a motor shaft and adopts a transmission-type grating sandwich structure, and the transmission-type grating sandwich structure comprises a light source module which is arranged on the upper layer and comprises an aspheric collimating lens capable of generating uniform parallel light beams; the grating code disc is arranged on the middle layer and made of an optical glass substrate, and the grating code disc is fixed on the motor shaft through a code disc tray; the photoelectric receiving module is arranged on the lower layer, the photoelectric receiving module comprises a plurality of groups of orthogonally arranged photodiodes and photoelectric converters, the photodiodes are used for receiving light and shade changes of light stripes and forming optical signals, and the photoelectric converters are used for receiving the optical signals and converting the optical signals into electric signals. According to the invention, the size of the structure can be reduced, the position subdivision precision is improved, the signal processing speed and the anti-interference capability are improved, and thus the use effect of the galvanometer motor system is improved.

The invention discloses an angle encoder calibration device and calibration method in the field of encoder calibration, and the device comprises a flexible clamping mechanism which is used for installing a stator on an encoder and buffering the stress generated when a rotor on the encoder jumps relative to the stator; the mounting and adjusting mechanism comprises a mounting mechanism and an adjusting mechanism, the mounting mechanism is used for mounting a rotor on the encoder, and the adjusting mechanism is arranged on the mounting mechanism and used for adjusting the overlap ratio of the central axis of the mounting mechanism and an upper shaft system of the rotary table; the rotary table is used for driving the rotor to rotate together. According to the angle encoder calibration device, the flexible clamping mechanism is arranged to buffer the influence of stress when a rotor on the encoder jumps relative to a stator, the encoder is connected with the mounting mechanism and is consistent with the daily working state of the encoder, the coaxiality of the mounting mechanism and a shaft system of a rotary table is adjusted through the adjusting mechanism, and the calibration precision is improved. The shaft system coaxiality of the rotor and the rotary table is ensured, and the test precision of the encoder is improved.

The invention provides a magnetic encoder. The magnetic encoder comprises a magnetic code disc and an in-plane orientation magnetoresistive sensor, two in-plane orthogonal magnetic fields generated by the magnetic code disc can saturate the magnetoresistive sensor, and the distance between the sensing center of the magnetoresistive sensor on the opposite plane and the midline of the corresponding magnetic track on the magnetic code disc is not smaller than one fourth of the width of the magnetic track. Wherein the opposite plane is parallel to the magnetic code disc; the sensing center of the magnetoresistive sensor module is the center of a sensing area formed by the plurality of magnetoresistive sensors; the center line of the magnetic track is a line formed by the center points of the magnetic track in the width direction. The precision of the magnetic encoder can be improved.

The invention provides an incremental photoelectric encoder alignment detection and calibration system based on a phase relation. The system is characterized in that the system is composed of a light source (1), a code disc (2), an incremental photoelectric encoder chip (3) and a signal processing and calibration system (4), wherein the incremental photoelectric encoder chip (3) is composed of a photoelectric signal acquisition module (31), an incremental signal generation module (32), a zero signal generation module (33), a phase analysis module (34), an alignment state determination module (35) and a feedback compensation module (36). By analyzing the phase relation between the zero signal and the increment signal, the alignment deviation and direction of the encoder and the code disc are judged, digital compensation is executed on the zero signal or the increment signal, automatic alignment detection and self-adaptive calibration are achieved, and therefore assembly errors and position errors caused by optical deviation are reduced, and the precision of the encoder is improved. And the precision, the stability and the reliability of the encoder system are improved.

Provided is a downhole tool, a well system, and a method. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a downhole device located proximate a downhole power source, the downhole device having circuitry coupled thereto, the circuitry configured to receive power from the downhole power source and measure operational data of the downhole device or downhole power source. The downhole tool, in accordance with another aspect, includes a signal noise source coupled with the circuitry, the signal noise source configured to receive the measured operational data from the circuitry and embed the operational data as noise. The downhole tool, in accordance with another aspect, includes a sensor positioned proximate the signal noise source, the sensor configured to sense for the noise and send uphole the operational data embedded within the noise.

A position measuring device including a first component group and a second component group. The first and second component groups are arranged so as to be movable relative to one another in a measurement direction. The first component group has a domain-wall memory including a domain-wall conductor running in a face. The second component group includes a first magnet and a second magnet. The first and second magnets are arranged end to end in the measurement direction, magnetized such that their magnetization directions run with an orthogonal directional component with respect to the face, and arranged such that they have opposite magnetization directions. The magnets are arranged and configured such that a distance in the measurement direction between the first magnet and the second magnet varies in size along a second direction that is oriented orthogonally to the measurement direction.

To suppress power consumption by surely detecting phase switching timing of a magnetic signal and reducing a bias current during an unnecessary period without generating switching noise in a motor drive device.SOLUTION: A motor drive device 1 for driving a brushless DC motor comprises a motor drive section 3 which drives a motor 5, a magnetic sensor 6 by which a magnetic field generated by rotation of the motor 5 is detected and outputted as magnetic signals IN1 and IN2, and a bias adjustment section 4 by which a bias voltage to be used for the magnetic field detection of the magnetic sensor is adjusted and outputted. The bias adjustment section 4 adjusts the bias voltage to a second voltage value (VHB / a) lower than a first voltage value of a value at which the magnetic sensor can detect the magnetic field, during a first period after phase switching of the magnetic signals IN1 and IN2 and adjusts the bias voltage to the first voltage value (VHB) during a second period from the lapse of the first period to the next phase switching of the magnetic signals.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

There is provided a phase shifter circuit of an optical encoder. The phase shifter circuit receives a first signal, a second signal, a third signal and a fourth signal sequentially having a 90-degree phase shift, and includes a first cascaded resistor string, a second cascaded resistor string, a third cascaded resistor string and a fourth cascaded resistor string. The first, second, third and fourth cascaded resistor strings respectively delay the first, third, second and fourth signals by selecting a switch connected at a tap-out node of the first, second, third and fourth cascaded resistor strings to correct phase deviations between incremental signals and an index signal and / or between incremental signals.