Optical or magnetic linear encoders are traditionally used to provide position feedback in applications with frequent product changes or and sophisticated machining. Linear encoders improve the ...

Insights into the use of built-in accelerometers and additional sensors in encoders to enable predictive maintenance and condition monitoring while simplifying installation and cabling. The FOT ...

Renesas introduced inductive position sensor ICs that can be fully customized for coil designs of industrial applications.

Renesas has unveiled a new range of magnet-free inductive position sensor (IPS) chips aimed at industrial and robotic ...

ADI single-chip angle & multiturn encoder position sensor, ADMT4000, integrates angle detection and passive multiturn memory function (up to support 46 turns, 0 ° to 16,560 °), and can be in the power ...

MTS Systems' Sensors Division's magnetostrictive sensors now provide the performance level that make them preferable alternatives to linear encoders in certain applications. The sensors can be ...

Ever tear open a potentiometer? If you haven’t, you can still probably guess what’s inside. A streak of resistive material with some kind of contact that moves across it as you rotate the shaft, right ...

One of the options in their smart sensor range is the EB260 incremental encoder, a bearing less rotary encoder which combines ...

Building a 3D motor printed motor is one thing, but creating a completely custom servo motor with encoder requires some significant engineering. In the video after the break [365 Robots] takes us ...