Eddy current sensor principle and performance parameter index

Induction Eddy Current Sensor

For position/displacement measurement and nanopositioning. According to Faraday's law of induction, eddy currents will be induced in metal conductors if the conductor is located in a time-varying magnetic field. The magnetic field here produces a wire coil that is current flowing in aternating. The magnetic field generated by this eddy current is the opposite and it overlaps with exciting magnetic fields. As a result, the changing impedance of the sensor coil Z.

The impedance change depends on the distance between a measurement target (metal plate) and the sensor, while the target material. The change of impedance of a coil for a defined measurement target is a function of distance. Therefore, the distance can be obtained by measuring the impedance change. Using an impedance transformer (Figure 2), the impedance change can be converted into a voltage change for further signal processing.

Figure 1 Eddy Current Displacement Sensors Figure 2 Impedance Voltage Converters Eddy current sensors work most efficently at high oscillation frequencies near their resonant frequency. The resonant frequency of the eddy current sensor depends on the sensor coil. The serial impedance Zs must be high enough to obtain high sensitivity. The output voltage U of the output voltage after demodulation U disk as a function of the distance. Figure 3 shows the output signals at different frequencies.

Figure 3 Eddy current position sensor 3 resonant voltage near 903 kHz
Using an aluminum plate as the target eddy current sensor performance with a change in the sensor coil impedance exceeds the calibration range of the target motion. The high impednce change in unit displacement is close to the goal and the farthest to change from the goal low. At the resonance frequency (903kHz for the number of coils of the sensor coil 200) a change in output voltage from 1.2V/mm to 3.96V/mm is a measuring range of 5mm. The smaller measurement range of the 2 mm output voltage is from 3V/mm to 5.6V/mm at the frequency of 915kHz. Using an exciting frequency at the resonance frequency is therefore achievable with a small distance measurment with a high resolution of 0.5 nm.
Fig. 4 Measurement increase range of the output signal of the linearized eddy current sensor (sensor embodiment with an excitation frequency of 810 kHz)

In order to increase the measurement range of the eddy current sensor, the linearity of the output signal must be improved by signal processing. The output signal at a frequency higher than the resonant frequency approximates an exponential function. In this case, one can use analog signal processing to produce a linear output voltage. Figure 4 shows each embodiment where the linearization of the output signal is at a frequency of 810 kHz. The linear range of the processed signal is greater than the amplification of the original signal. A linearity of less than 0.1% is achieved after sensor optimization.

Special sensor electronics, signal processing and self-calibration were developed for the compensation of temperature and material effects. Therefore, a distance eddy current sensor has been developed that is independent of the measurement object, and can accurately measure the position, distance and vibration measurement under normal conditions.

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