Analysis and improvement of detection accuracy for a wireless motion sensing system using integrated coil component

Integration of the exciting coil and the pick-up coil array for the wireless magnetic motion sensing system has been investigated to clear the limitation of the system arrangement. From the comparison of the integrated-type and the sandwich-type, which was proposed by our previous study, regardless of the lower signal-to-noise ratio of the integrated-type than that of the sandwich-type a repeatable detection accuracy of around 1 mm is obtained at the distance of 120 mm from the pick-up coil array (sandwich-type: up to 140 mm). A different tendency of the detection errors in detection was also observed. In spite of different tendency, the cause of the errors has been clarified. The impedance change of the exciting coil due to a resonance of the LC marker perturbs strength of the magnetic field which is used for marker excitation. However, the errors are able to compensate to the actual positions and orientations of the marker by using compensatory method which was already established. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3337706]