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With the movement of the linear motor, Hall Effect sensor modules electrically separated 120\u00b0 along with the idea of three phase balanced condition ( va + vb + vc = 0 ) are used to produce three phase signals. The amplitude of the sensor output voltage signals are adjusted to unit amplitude to minimize the amplitude errors. With the unit amplitude signals three to two phase transformation is done to reduce the three multiples of harmonic components. The final output thus obtained is converted to position data by the use of arctangent function. The measurement accuracy of the new method is analyzed by experiments and compared with the conventional two phase method. Using the same number of sensor modules as the conventional two phase method, the proposed method gives more accurate position information compared to the conventional system where sensors are separated by 90\u00b0 electrical angles.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s151026694","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,22]],"date-time":"2015-10-22T03:05:31Z","timestamp":1445483131000},"page":"26694-26708","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["A New Approach to Detect Mover Position in Linear Motors Using Magnetic Sensors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Sarbajit","family":"Paul","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Mechatronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Dong-A University, 840,  Hadan-2-dong, Saha-gu, Busan 604-714, Korea"}]},{"given":"Junghwan","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mechatronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Dong-A University, 840,  Hadan-2-dong, Saha-gu, Busan 604-714, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"534","DOI":"10.1109\/TPEL.2011.2168543","article-title":"Markov reliability modeling for induction motor drives under field-oriented control","volume":"27","author":"Bazzi","year":"2012","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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