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Motion-control or industrial automation system designers who need to measure the rotation of shafts or other mechanical components can typically choose from two types of rotary encoders. Encoders ...

Across a wide range of applications, it is necessary to accurately sense the motion of a rotary shaft and know its position, speed, or even acceleration. To do this, a shaft or rotary encoder is added ...

Rotary encoders are widely used in many highly visible and even less-visible applications in medical systems, military and aerospace, and industrial and factory automation (Figure 1). These ...

Part 1 of this FAQ looked at the optical rotary encoder, a low-cost, high-resolution, easy-to-use sensor for indicating incremental shaft position (although it can be “upgraded” to indicate absolute ...

Speed, power and durability are key characteristics of industrial robots. These robots are typically used in applications such as welding or in lifting heavy components for vehicle assembly. Yet ...

[Pete] needed a rotary encoder for one of his project so he set out to build his own. As the name implies, a rotary encoder measures rotation by encoding “steps” into electrical signals which can be ...

Arduino library for reading rotary encoders that output a 2-bit gray code. Rotary r = Rotary(2, 3); void setup() { r.begin(); } void loop() { result = r.process(); if ...