Patent ID: 8600591

Claim:
An operator controller, comprising: an operator control lever for controlling a locomotive or a traction vehicle; a sensor device for sensing an operator control position of said operator control lever, said sensor device having an angle measuring device suitable for measuring an adjustment angle of said operator control lever by forming a digitized angle value, a measuring range of said angle measuring device is larger than an adjustment angle range of said operator control lever; and an evaluation device determining an operator control position of said operator control lever on a basis of the digitized angle value of said angle measuring device, said evaluation device connected to said angle measuring device, said evaluation device having an assignment module for mapping each of the digitized angle values supplied by said angle measuring device to an angle of a unit circle being an unit circle angle, said evaluation device having a lever-specific configuration module in which an associated operator control position of said operator control lever is respectively assigned to each unit circle angle of said operator control lever, and said evaluation device configured such that said evaluation device determines a respective unit circle angle with said assignment module, and determines the respective operator control position of said operator control lever with said lever-specific configuration module and a determined unit circle angle of said operator control lever.