With improved accuracy

Posital Fraba has updated its family of Tiltix inclinometers with three-axis Mems accelerometers by enhanced firmware, improved accuracy, and the housing concept.

Enhanced programming functions relate to the number of axes and filtering methods. The measurement accuracy was improved to ±0,1 °. The sensors are available in fiber-reinforced plastic housings or IP69K-rated metal enclosures.

These changes enable the company to streamline manufacturing processes and reduce delivery times. The introduced versions are compatible with older models, with identical mounting footprint while offering improved accuracy and better signal-to-noise ratios, informed Posital. Common applications include positioning of solar panels, rollover warning systems for mobile machinery, control systems for crane booms, and tilt control in service robots, AGV’s (automated guided vehicles) as well as other materials-handling systems. Versions with CANopen and analog outputs will be available by the end of 2022, added the company.

Posital also offers the Dynamic Tiltix series. These devices, in addition to providing inclination measurements, also detect accelerations and rates of rotation in all three axes. Here, a second measurement system was added to the Mems accelerometers used in conventional tilt sensors. The electromechanical gyroscope system measures the rate of rotation in the different axes. This eliminates the central shortcoming of conventional inclination sensors, where sudden accelerations or vibrations cause inertial loads in the accelerometers, adding noise to the output signals and errors to the tilt angle readings. Signals from the accelerometer and gyroscope are combined by algorithms to filter out the errors caused by acceleration loads so that the actual inclination is reported accurately.

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