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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2003
Siegbert Steinlechner, Leonberg, DE;
Axel Wenzler, Leonberg, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The invention proposes a method for determining a rotation angle or distance by evaluating a multitude of phase measurement values. By means of a linear transformation A, the phase values measured in an N-dimensional space are projected into N-1 new signals S . These signals S are transformed by a quantizing device into corresponding integer values W and converted into N real values Z by means of a linear projection C. These values have weighted phase measurement values &agr; added to them in modulo 2&pgr; fashion, which yields N estimates for the angle &phgr; to be measured. The N estimates are corrected if needed at their skip points and are added up in a weighted fashion, taking into account their phase angle.