Fluorescent Dye Based Optical Position Sensing for Planar Linear Motors - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Fluorescent Dye Based Optical Position Sensing for Planar Linear Motors

Gregory Fries, Alfred Rizzi, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1614 - 1619, May, 1999

Abstract

Industrial Sawyer motor technology has existed for nearly three decades, traditionally being operated as open-loop positioners. Such systems can attain micron level motion resolution and open-loop repeatability of 10/spl mu/m. This paper outlines a optical sensing technique for Sawyer motors which is capable of sub-micron resolution. Such a sensor can easily be integrated into a motor enabling closed-loop control and sub-micron repeatability.

BibTeX

@conference{Fries-1999-14901,
author = {Gregory Fries and Alfred Rizzi and Ralph Hollis},
title = {Fluorescent Dye Based Optical Position Sensing for Planar Linear Motors},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {1999},
month = {May},
volume = {2},
pages = {1614 - 1619},
}