Control system and method for providing position measurement with redundancy for safety checking

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8531182
APP PUB NO 20080315866A1
SERIAL NO

12142213

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A control system for use in safety critical human/machine control interfaces is described, more particularly a joystick type control system and particularly a joystick type control system utilizing magnetic positional sensing. The control system provides a control input device having a movable magnet, a pole-piece frame arrangement positioned about the magnet, at least three magnetic flux sensors being positioned in said pole-piece frame arrangement and a monitoring arrangement for monitoring the output signal of each of said at least three sensors.

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  • PENNY & GILES CONTROLS LIMITED

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Banerjee, Dev Kumar Shirley, GB 4 33

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