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Measuring Controlling Positioning
nnnanoStar nnMagnetic measurement system for absolute measuring Switch on and read off the position
FEATURES absolute position measurement Օ position resolution: +/- 15 nm traverse speed up to 10 m/s Օ interference-free data transfere CAN interface Օ Ethernet interface >
Picture: nanoStar sensor and digitalisation unit nanoStar is a contact-free measurement system which evaluates the mangnetic structures of a metal measuring rod with three coded tracks to calculate the absolute position.Due to the special construction of this gauge, nanoStar achives a precision previously only possible with optical systems. nanoStar has transferred the position resolu-
tion of magnetic measurement systems from the m range to the nm reange.The nanoStar measurement system consists of the components: sensor head, digitalisation unit and controller. For applications with re-
stricted space, the The high-resolution digitalisation unti reads off the track data at a recording frequency of at least 20kHz. Even at a process speed of 10m/s, resolution within the nm range is as-
sured.The digitalised track data are transferred free of interference via a maximum cable length of up to 10 m to the controller and there conver-ted to absolute position values by a high per-
formance processor in real time.
These position values can be read off either via a CAN bus interface or via a 100 MBit TCP/IP interface.High-performance software for calibration, dia-gnosis and service purposes is available. sensor head can be moun-ted separate from the digitalisation unit. These two componets are than connected via a highly flexible FFC cable. >