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    Electronically adjustable phase shifter using OTAs
    First-order phase shifter using operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) as active elements is presented in this paper. The corner frequency of the proposed phase shifter can be adjusted by electronic means. The purpose of this paper is emphasized on simple configuration and low cost. The phase response between input and output signals against the operating frequency is varied from 180 to 0 degrees of phase lead. The principle of the proposed circuit is confirmed by simulation and experimental results. To verify the proposed circuit performance, the sinusoidal oscillator is provided for circuit application. ©ICROS.
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    Simple LVDT signal to DC converter
    A simple technique to produce a linear signal from a displacement transducer, linear variable differential transformer (LVDT), is introduced in this paper. The two-quadrant divider is used to precede the ratio of a different and sum of the two winding signals from the LVDT instead of a four-quadrant divider of a recent approach. The two- quadrant divider is obtained by an operational transcondutance amplifier (OTA) in the form of a voltage-tocurrent converter. The signal from the divider is held by the sample and hold circuit (SHC) controlled by the peak-amplitude finder. As a result, the held signal is achieved without using a low-pass filter. The temperature effect of both OTA and LVDT are compensated. The merit of the proposed technique is that the circuit requires without the low-pass filter. Therefore, the fast response is obtained. The performance of the proposed scheme is confirmed by the experimental results using commercial devices.
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    Accurate LVDT signal converter
    A novel technique to implement a signal converter for an inductive displacement transducer, a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT), is proposed in this paper. The technique is based on the use of the proposed peak-amplitude finder and the zero-order sample and hold circuit (ZSH) instead of the synchronous demodulator used in traditional approach. The advantage of this technique is that the phase shift due to the dominant pole of the low-pass filter used in the traditional synchronous demodulator is avoided. Therefore, the fast response time of the proposed LVDT signal converter is achieved. The core displacement signal, which is varied in proportion to the position of the moving core of the LVDT, is accurately extracted to directcurrent (DC) voltage signal. The reference signal used to generate the control signal for the ZSH is directly provided by the output signal of the LVDT to prevent the phase shift caused by the LVDT structure. Performances of the proposed technique are discussed in detail and confirmed by the experimental demonstration using commercial devices. The purpose of the proposed technique is emphasized in terms of high accuracy, fast response, simple configuration and low cost.
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    Simple LVDT signal conditioner
    A method to implement a signal conditioning circuit for a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) is proposed in this article. The proposed signal conditioner can be used instead of a synchronous demodulator in the tradition approaches. The output signal of the signal conditioner is linearly proportional to the moving core of the LVDT with fast response. The realization technique is based on the use of an analog integrator to determine the LVDT signal at the half period of the excitation signal. The proposed signal conditioner provides without low-pass filter in the signal path. Therefore, the response time of the proposed technique is settled within half period of the excitation signal. The devices used in the proposed signal conditioner consist of basic commercially available devices such as operational amplifier (opamp), comparator, analog switch and one-shot timer. Experimental results demonstrated the performance of the proposed conditioner are included. The proposed technique is attractive in terms of simple configuration and low cost.
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    Linear-range extension for linear variable differential transformer using triangular signal
    (2018-12-10) ;
    Koodtalang, W.
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    This paper presents a linear range extension technique for the linear variable differential transformer (LVDT). The technique is based on a signal conditioning circuit using the analog lookup table, which provides very high resolution of resulting signal. The analog table which is obtained by the triangular signal generator, which has the frequency equal to the excitation frequency. Meanwhile, the referenced signal is obtained by the comparison between the excitation signal and the output signal of LVDT. It is used to synchronize with the triangular signal. The proposed technique is simply circuit configuration and it can be implemented using available commercial devices. The experiment shows that the performances of the proposed circuit can be extended from the normal operating range of LVDT to the maximum stroke range. In addition, the response time of the proposed techniques can be approximated as half period of the excitation signal.
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    Linear range extension for LVDT using analog lookup table
    (2018-08-13) ;
    Koodtalang, W.
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    A technique to extend the operating range of the linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) is presented in this article. The realization method is based on the analog lookup table achieved by the ramp signal generator where the frequency of ramp signal is equal to the excitation frequency. Therefore, the resolution of the resulting signal is very high. The output signals of the LVDT are provided to generate the reference signal to synchronize with the ramp signal. The proposed technique can extend the operating range of the LVDT from a normal operating range provided by the specification of the LVDT to maximum stroke range of the LVDT. The circuit of the proposed technique is simple and can be implemented using the commercial devices. The experimental results confirmed that the circuit performance are good agreement with the expected results. The response time of the proposed technique is about two periods of the excitation frequency.
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    Temperature Compensation For V/F Converter
    In this article, a method to compensate the temperature effect of voltage to frequency converter (V/F) is presented. Realization technique is based on the use of fre-quency to voltage converter (F/V), which provides the inverse transfer characteristic of V/F converter, in feedback path. The conversion gain of the proposed scheme is identical as a simple V/F converter without effect from feedback con_guration. The frequency derivation due to the change of temperature from 25°C to 60°C can be improved more than 86.4%. Experimental results demonstrated the proposed principle using commercial devices is also included. © 2012 ICIC International.
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    High-accuracy resolver-to-linear signal converter
    A high-accuracy resolver-to-linear signal converter for the measurement of angular displacement is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter comprises two sections: a demodulator and linear shaper. In the first section, the demodulator makes use of the sample-and-hold circuit (SHC) to sample the peak amplitude of the resolver signal. The control signal of the SHC is provided from the resolver signals instead of the excitation signal used in traditional approaches. The proposed demodulator requires no analogue multiplier and low-pass filter. Therefore, the fast response time of the proposed demodulator is achieved. In the second section, the linear shaper consists of the inverse-sine function scheme together with a switched-gain amplifier to produce the linear signal proportional to the shaft angle. The hyperbolic tangent characteristic of the operational transconductance amplifier is utilised to realise the inverse-sine function scheme. The proposed technique requires one phase of the resolver signal to obtain the linear signal. Therefore, the position error caused by amplitude imbalance between the two resolver signals is avoided. The performances of the proposed converter are discussed in detail and demonstrated by an experimental implementation using commercial devices. The experimental results show that the maximum relative error and response time for the excitation frequency of 3 kHz are measured as 0.06% and 0.11 ms, respectively.
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