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A sinusoidal voltage is applied on the excitation electrodes, then the voltage couples to the coupling electrodes and sensitive electrodes without contact. The sensitive electrodes together with the set of collection electrodes encode the angular position to amplitude-modulated signals, and in order to increase the scale factor, the sensitive electrodes are patterned in the shape of petal-form sinusoidal circles. By utilizing a resolver demodulation method, the amplitude-modulated signals are digitally decoded to get the angular position. A prototype of the CAPS is fabricated and tested. The measurement results show that the accuracy of the sensor is 0.0036\u00b0, the resolution is 0.0009\u00b0 and the nonlinearity over the full range is 0.008\u00b0 (after compensation), indicating that the CAPS has great potential to be applied in high-precision applications with a low cost.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16081196","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,29]],"date-time":"2016-07-29T10:40:24Z","timestamp":1469788824000},"page":"1196","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["A Novel Single-Excitation Capacitive Angular Position Sensor Design"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Bo","family":"Hou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Mingliang","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Zhihui","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Rong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"045202","DOI":"10.1088\/0957-0233\/19\/4\/045202","article-title":"A disk-type capacitive sensor for five-dimensional motion measurements","volume":"19","author":"Ahn","year":"2008","journal-title":"Meas. 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