Sick Ag

Sascha Thoss

Olaf Machul

Andreas Peter

Josef Baak

André Lissner

A sensor for detecting an object is provided that has a detection unit for detecting a sensor signal and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to determine an object property by evaluating the sensor signal, to determine a correction value for interference of the sensor environment from the sensor signal using a method of machine learning, and to take the correction value into account in the determination of the object property.

Sensor for detecting an object and method of evaluating a sensor signal

The invention relates to a sensor for determining an output value, the sensor having: a detection unit configured to detect a sensor signal; a preprocessing unit configured to determine an intermediate signal on the basis of the sensor signal and of a predefined reference signal; and an evaluation unit that is trained in accordance with a machine learning method and that is configured to determine the output value on the basis of the intermediate signal.

Sensors for determining an output value, method for evaluating a sensor signal, and method for training an output unit to evaluate a sensor signal

A method and an inductive proximity sensor for detecting an object having at least one coil, wherein at least one transmission current pulse can be applied to the coil by a control and evaluation unit and having the control and evaluation unit for outputting an object detection signal, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to scan at least one induced voltage pulse that is generated by the transmission current pulse at the coil in at least one section from or after the point in time of the application of the transmission current pulse up to the point in time of the complete attenuation of the voltage pulse and to form scan values, whereby the voltage pulse is digitized.

Inductive proximity sensor

An inductive proximity sensor and a method comprising a transmitter coil, a receiver coil, an excitation device which is connected to the transmitter coil and an evaluation device, wherein the evaluation device is designed to generate an output signal which depends on a voltage ratio between a transmission voltage of the transmitter coil and/or of the excitation device and a reception voltage of the receiver coil, wherein the excitation device is designed to generate a sinusoidal radio frequency transmission voltage. An inductive proximity sensor and a method comprising a transmitter coil, a receiver coil, an excitation device which is connected to the transmitter coil and an evaluation device, wherein the evaluation device is designed to generate an output signal which is dependent on a reception voltage of the receiver coil, wherein the excitation device is designed to generate a sinusoidal radio frequency transmission voltage with a constant amplitude.

The invention relates to an inductive proximity sensor for determining the presence and/or the distance of an electrically conductive object which is designed to evaluate an oscillation in the form of an analog signal whose amplitude depends on the presence or absence and/or on the distance of an electrically conductive object. In accordance with the invention, the inductive proximity sensor includes at least one A/D converter which converts this analog signal into a digital input signal and includes at least one mixer which multiplies the digital input signal by a digital reference signal to form a digital output signal, wherein the digital reference signal is identical to the digital input signal or only differs from the digital input signal by a constant factor. The invention further relates to a method for determining the presence and/or the distance of an electrically conductive object with the aid of a proximity sensor.

The present invention relates to a proximity sensor having a first transmission coil, a second transmission coil, at least one reception coil, an excitation device which is connected to the first and second transmission coils, and an evaluation unit which is connected to at least one transmission coil and/or to the excitation device as well as to the at least one reception coil.

Proximity sensor

The invention relates to an inductive proximity sensor with a sensor element which includes a resonant circuit which provides an output signal which depends on the damping by an electrically conductive object. In accordance with the invention, the inductive proximity sensor has a &#x3a3;&#x394; modulator for the evaluation of an output signal of the resonant circuit. The invention furthermore relates to a method for the determination of the presence and/or of the spacing of a metallic object with the help of an inductive proximity sensor.

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Freiburg, Germany

Sascha Thoss