Spool position feedback in an electrohydraulic valve typically requires a spool displacement sensing device such as a LVDT. Self-sensing is the methodology to obtain spool displacement information directly from the solenoid spool actuators, thus obviating the additional cost and footprint of a LVDT or another displacement sensing device. A self-sensing scheme that uses only the measurement of e...

Shaft position sensing is an essential part of switched reluctance (SR) motor drive In order to synchronize the pulses of phase current with the period of rising inductance of the proper motor phase. Direct sensors such as, Hall effect and optical encoder are commonly used in SR motors. The purpose of this paper is to present an indirect shaft positioning sensing known as "sensorless " control ...

Flexible robots have given rise to numerous investigations, and their use is easily justified in two main cases: (1) when the weight of the robot has to be minimized and (2) when collisions of the robot with the environment are foreseen, as a flexible lightweight robot delivers less impact energy. Much work has been done by different authors on the position control of flexible robots using feed...

One of the chief obstacles to constructing a reliable, low-cost, practical magnetic bearing is designing a suitable position sensor. A homopolar magnetic bearing that uses the same coils to stabilize the rotor and sense its position is introduced. A prototype bearing has been built and successfully used to stabilize a rotor. The electromagnetic analysis of the self-sensing function, the impleme...

A summary of a comprehensive analysis of theoretical and practical aspects of position sensing by charge division from resistive electrodes is presented. Properties of transformer decoupling of the resistive electrode from detectAi bias voltage are analyzed and compared to the usual capacitive decoupling methods. Optimization and limitation of signal shaping is discussed as a function of diffus...

A general echo model is derived for the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging with high resolution based on the scalar form of Maxwell’s equations. After analyzing the relationship between the general echo model in frequency domain and the existing model in time domain, a compressive sensing (CS) matrix is constructed from random partial Fourier matrices for processing the range CS SAR imaging...

This report presents a new way to control the tip position of single-link flexible arms when friction is present in the joint. In order to minimize the influence of the nonlinear components of this friction, the control scheme is composed of two nested loops: an inner loop that controls the motor position, and an outer loop that controls the tip position. It is demonstrated that proper design o...

This reporr presents a ncw way to control the tip position of single-link flexible arms when friction is present in the joint. In order to minimize the influence of the nonlinear components of this friction, the control scheme is composed of two nested loops: an inner loop that controls the motor position, and an outcr loop that controls the tip position. It is demonsuated that proper design of...

Fano resonances in plasmonic systems have been proved to facilitate various sensing applications in the nanoscale. In this work, we propose an experimental scheme to realize a single protein sensing by utilizing its two-photon luminescence enhanced by a plasmonic Fano resonance system. The asymmetric gold hexamer supporting polarization-dependent Fano resonances and plasmonic modes without in-p...