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<p>The methods of multi-DOF actuator orientation detection based on machine vision and magnetic field sensor and neural network based multisensor fusion are presented in this paper. Special grid pattern is printed on the surface of rotor according to the pseudo-random encoder for the camera capturing the image of the rotor. The magnetic field sensors are adopted and properly placed circling the shaft of rotor for detection the orientation information. By analyzing the image of the rotor, the coordinates of characteristic points in the coordinate system fixed on the rotor are derived. Combined with the magnetic sensor scheme to reduce the measurement error and enhance the fault tolerant ability, a multisensor data fusion scheme using BP neural network is developed and validated by experiment. The results show that multisensor data fusion based on NN is superior to single measurement method with more accuracy and high reliability, which is more effective and practical for applications.</p></abstract>

The methods of multi-DOF actuator orientation detection based on machine vision and magnetic field sensor and neural network based multisensor fusion are presented in this paper. Special grid pattern is printed on the surface of rotor according to the pseudo-random encoder for the camera capturing the image of the rotor. The magnetic field sensors are adopted and properly placed circling the shaft of rotor for detection the orientation information. By analyzing the image of the rotor, the coordinates of characteristic points in the coordinate system fixed on the rotor are derived. Combined with the magnetic sensor scheme to reduce the measurement error and enhance the fault tolerant ability, a multisensor data fusion scheme using BP neural network is developed and validated by experiment. The results show that multisensor data fusion based on NN is superior to single measurement method with more accuracy and high reliability, which is more effective and practical for applications.

Neural Network Based Multisensor Fusion in a Novel Permanent Magnet Multi-DOF Actuator Orientation Detection System

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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The methods of multi-DOF actuator orientation detection based on machine vision and magnetic field sensor and neural network based multisensor fusion are...

Neural Network Based Multisensor Fusion in a Novel Permanent Magnet Multi-DOF Actuator Orientation Detection System

Online veröffentlicht: 01. Dez. 2012

Seitenbereich: 911 - 927

Eingereicht: 10. Aug. 2012

Akzeptiert: 17. Sept. 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-514

© 2012 Zheng Li et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.