Absolute rotary angular /position sensors play an important role in various applications and rapid development of new technologies requires further accurate measurement and control. In this paper, a novel, very simple, low-cost and high accurate absolute rotary angular/ position sensor is presented. The sensor operation is based on the combination of circular gradient gray scale and gray code pattern. A simple experiment is done in order to demonstrate proof of concept of proposed sensor. The experimental results show that the proposed absolute rotary angular/position sensor has excellent linear characteristics with accuracy below ±1° and resolution of 0.1° within the full measurement range from 0° to 360°. The proposed idea and experimental results can be helpful to design absolute rotary angular/position sensor to improve performance of it.
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