Automated Testbench for Inductive Sensors Based on Chaotic Oscillators

Abstract

One of the promising directions in the inductive sensors development is their design based on chaotic oscillators. This approach allows increasing the range and sensitivity of sensors, linearizing their response, providing a number of other useful properties. Investigation of chaotic dynamics in such sensory systems can be performed using computer simulation. However, the specific circuit implementations may differ from models, and therefore their experimental study is necessary. The proposed testbench allows automatically building bifurcation diagrams of the chaotic sensor oscillations by axially moving the target, as well as to calculate metrics. Thus, the quality and speed of research and development is increased.