Grove 12-bit Magnetic Rotary Position Sensor / Encoder (AS5600)

Reference: SEEED 101020692

PRODUCT DETAILS

The Grove - AS5600 is a programmable 12-bit high-resolution contactless magnetic rotary position sensor. The Grove - AS5600 can work as a magnetic potentiometer and a magnetic encoder with excellent reliability and durability. Compared with the traditional potentiometer/encoder, the Grove - AS5600 has significant advantages: high precision, non-contact, no rotation angle limitation. All those advantages make it is perfectly suitable for non-contact angle measurement applications, such as the robot arm, tripod head, motor closed-loop control, machine tool axis positioning.

AS5600 is based on the Hall Effect, the build-in Hall sensor can detect changes in the direction of the magnetic field, thus, there is also no rotation angle limit. Then the magnetic field direction information is amplified by the amplifier, with the help of the build-in 12 bit A/D, the AS5600 module can output 4096 positions per round. The output is selectable, you can either use the I2C interface to output the RAW data or output the PWM wave/Analog wave via the OUT pin. Meanwhile, the maximum angle is also programmable, you can set the maximum angle from 18° to 360°, which means that the measured angular accuracy is up to 18/4096.

AS5600 is excellent for the non-contact rotary position sensor, so we made this AS5600 Breakout Board in the Grove form factor. With the Grove I2C connector, you can easily connect this AS5600 module to Arduino. Seeed Studio provides the full function AS5600 Arduino library.

Applicable magnet description

Since the AS5600 has certain requirements for the magnetic field to be measured. We recommend a round magnet that is about the same size as the chip.

Features

Non-contact, no rotation angle limitation
12-bit high-resolution, 4096 positions per round
Grove I2C, PWM/Analog Output
Great flexibility on angular excursion: Maximum angle programmable from 18° up to 360°