Method for detecting the position of a movable component, in particular for detecting the angular position of a rotatably mounted component or for detecting the linear position of a component arranged in a linearly movable manner, by means of a sensor that comprises, as the sensor signals encoding the position, a first signal, in particular a sine signal, and a second signal, in particular a cosine signal, wherein the position detected by the sensor is encoded by means of the first and the second signal, wherein an actual variable (r_ist) is determined from the sensor signals recurrently over time, wherein the determination of a manipulated value, in particular of a most recently updated manipulated value, is triggered by a trigger signal, in particular each trigger signal, in particular by a trigger pulse, wherein the manipulated value is determined such that the actual variable is controlled towards a target variable (r_soll), in particular wherein the manipulated value only changes upon each subsequent determination triggered by each further trigger signal, in particular wherein the manipulated value determined by the determination triggered by the trigger signal remains unchanged until the next trigger signal chronologically and/or each further trigger signal, characterised in that a trigger signal is triggered when the position encoded by means of the first and the second signal has changed - by a distance, in particular an angular length or linear length, corresponding to the electrical period of the first and the second signal, - or by a maximum distance, in particular angular length or linear length, that can be unambiguously encoded by means of the first and the second signal, since the latest triggered trigger signal. wherein the position detected by the sensor is encoded by means of the first and the second signal, wherein an actual variable (r_ist) is determined from the sensor signals recurrently over time, wherein the determination of a manipulated value, in particular of a most recently updated manipulated value, is triggered by a trigger signal, in particular each trigger signal, in particular by a trigger pulse, wherein the manipulated value is determined such that the actual variable is controlled towards a target variable (r_soll), in particular wherein the manipulated value only changes upon each subsequent determination triggered by each further trigger signal, in particular wherein the manipulated value determined by the determination triggered by the trigger signal remains unchanged until the next trigger signal chronologically and/or each further trigger signal, characterised in that a trigger signal is triggered when the position encoded by means of the first and the second signal has changed - by a distance, in particular an angular length or linear length, corresponding to the electrical period of the first and the second signal, - or by a maximum distance, in particular angular length or linear length, that can be unambiguously encoded by means of the first and the second signal, - by a distance, in particular an angular length or linear length, corresponding to the electrical period of the first and the second signal, - or by a maximum distance, in particular angular length or linear length, that can be unambiguously encoded by means of the first and the second signal, since the latest triggered trigger signal.