Robotic position sensor

摘要

An electromechanical manipulator including gripper elements provided with a plurality of fingers and a sensing element provided for each of the fingers to sense their relative position. The sensing means includes at least one Hall effect element disposed in the body of the gripper element. A magnet element is oriented in a bipolar slide-by mode with respect to the Hall effect element and is disposed for movement with one of the fingers of a gripper element.