• The new mantra of position encoding is low-current drain. • Capacitive encoding is a way to realize low-power consumption without giving up resolution or accuracy, even at relatively low speeds.

Abstract: Condition monitoring of rotating machinery under low- and variable-speed conditions is a hot and difficult issue. Compared with vibration signals, optical encoder signals have the advantages ...

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Abstract: This paper proposes an absolute positioning method for distance encoding by fusing reference signals with incremental signals. Reference marks with extinction characteristics are embedded in ...