A method of improving the resolution and accuracy of rotary encoders using a code compensation technique

Abstract

A method of improving the resolution and accuracy of incremental type rotary encoders using a phase encoding and code compensation system is described. Applying this system to an optical incremental encoder whose scale pitch is 1/3600 rotation, results in a resolution of up to 1/920000 rotation, and better than +or-1/300000 rotation (+or-0.0012 degrees ) precision is obtained.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>