Wide Bandwidth and Inexpensive Current Sensor for Power Electronics—An Augmented LEM Current Sensor

Torque Control of Brushless Direct Current Motor Drives Using Single Current Sensor with High Reliability

Due to the simple structure, high torque density, low maintenance, and high efficiency, brushless direct current (BLDC) motors are widely used in automation and industrial applications. A control strategy based on single current sensor is proposed for a four-switch three-phase BLDC motor system to lower cost and improve reliability. The whole working process of the BLDC motor is divided into si...

MOS-FET as a Current Sensor in Power Electronics Converters

This paper presents a current sensing principle appropriate for use in power electronics' converters. This current measurement principle has been developed for metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOS-FET) and is based on U(DS) voltage measurement. In practice, shunt resistors and Hall effect sensors are usually used for these purposes, but the presented principle has many advanta...

Power Allocation Procedure for Wireless Sensor Networks with Integrated Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Communications and Radar Capabilities

Power Supply and Current Modulation Circuits for Semiconductor Lasers

Design and construction of a stable current supply with protection circuits are described. The reported circuit provides a high-stable and high-level current variable from 0.5-1.2 A with the protect ion circuits to prevent over load current, voltage and off-range temperature operation. A detailed analysis of the circuit parameters is given and the time behaviors of the load voltage/current and ...

Micromachined optical fiber current sensor.

We describe a micromachined optical fiber current sensor. The sensing element consists of a squared silicon membrane (8 mm long and 20 microm thick) that has a cylindrical permanent magnet (NdFeB alloy, 3-mm diameter, 1.5 mm high) fixed on its central region. This structure allows the permanent magnet to vibrate in the presence of the magnetic field gradient generated by an ac. A linear relatio...