Manufacturing Automation: What is sensor linearity and what does it mean?
by Manufacturing Automation
All of these specifications represent limits of error or sources of uncertainty related to the sensor’s output compared to its input
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Most analog output sensors have general specifications such as linearity (or non-linearity), repeatability, and resolution, as well as environmental specifications like operating temperature or shock and vibration, and dynamic specifications like response or bandwidth.
All of these specifications represent limits of error or sources of uncertainty related to the sensor’s output compared to its input. Many of these terms are fairly easy to understand by their wording alone, but linearity error or non-linearity is not in that category.
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