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Mansoor Asif: Lecturer Electronics, Power and Control Group Electrical Engineering Department Seecs, Nust

Displacement sensors measure the motion of a body between two points by converting displacement into an electrical parameter. There are several types of displacement sensors, including potentiometers, LVDTs, variable capacitive transducers, variable inductive transducers, and strain gauges. Potentiometers use a sliding contact that moves along a resistance element, where the change in resistance is converted to an output voltage proportional to the displacement.

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Mansoor Asif: Lecturer Electronics, Power and Control Group Electrical Engineering Department Seecs, Nust

Displacement sensors measure the motion of a body between two points by converting displacement into an electrical parameter. There are several types of displacement sensors, including potentiometers, LVDTs, variable capacitive transducers, variable inductive transducers, and strain gauges. Potentiometers use a sliding contact that moves along a resistance element, where the change in resistance is converted to an output voltage proportional to the displacement.

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Mansoor Asif

Lecturer
Electronics, Power and Control
Group
Electrical Engineering Department
SEECS, NUST
School of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, NUST

Displacement Sensors

School of Electrical Engineering


and Computer Science, NUST

1-Displacement Sensors
Measure the motion of a body between
two points
Principle
Convert applied force into displacement

Most displacement transducer convert


displacement
into
some
electrical
parameter

1-Displacement Sensors
Types of displacement transducer

Potentiometer
LVDT
Variable Capacitive Transducer
Variable Inductive transducer
Strain Gauges

2-Potentiometer
The potentiometer initially known as
rheostat is simply a wire wound
resistor

Potentiometer

Potentiometer
Different types of potentiometer

Potentiometer
Resistance element with a sliding
contact which can be moved over the
length of the element
Change in resistance is converted to
output voltage proportional to the
displacement of transducer

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