Authors

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In this paper a low cost calibration method which can calibrate with measuring the sensor displacement is suggested. To verify this calibration method a two-axis table, which is expensive, with artificial neural network (ANN) for mapping non-linear relationships between the inputs and outputs is used. The result illustrates the efficiency of this calibration method. In order to design the artificial neural network the MATLAB software is used.

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