Optoelectronic Reflective Sensors

نویسندگان

  • Lino Marques
  • Urbano Nunes
  • Aníbal T. de Almeida
چکیده

It is common to find in Industrial Automation, and particularly in Robotics, applications that need a large number of proximity sensors. In applications where the cost is a very important factor, the most common choice of proximity sensing is based in optoelectronic reflective sensors. This article describes a new modulation method that facilitates the construction of large arrays of these proximity sensors. The proposed method allows the utilization of off-the-shelf infrared (IR) digital receivers, like the ones used in IR data communications, by modulating the emitted light with a saw-tooth envelope. The output from each receiver will be a Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) signal whose duty represents the proximity to the target surface. The resulting architecture for such sensing system allows an easy increment of sensing elements with a small incremental cost. The paper also describes the implementation of a prototype with eight sensing elements and analyses its characteristics.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001