Preliminary design of a magnetic position sensor based on a biocybernetic system approach

In this paper a novel approach for the preliminary design of a magnetic position sensor is presented. It is based on a biocybernetic system approach which was originally developed to deal with the complexity of systems for the use in working areas of cooperative planning or the management of organizations. In this work will be shown that this approach can also be applied to complex technical systems like in the present case a magnetic position sensor in order to do its preliminary design. The sensor consists of a detection unit and a permanent magnet which is fixed at the moving part of the measuring task. Between both components the distance can be observed in a range of about ten millimeters. The method was validated by a finite element simulation model with a exemplary design for specific requirements. The simulation results show that already after the second iteration the requirements could be fulfilled thanks to the novel biocybernetic system approach.